We completed an order from Eisenbau Krämer GmbH for this in March and April 2017. These are buckle arrestor pipes for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), routing gas from the lines in Turkey, across Greece and Albania, to Italy. The pipes coated by us are only used in the offshore part of the line, i.e. in the Adria between Albania and Italy. The pipes are installed up to 820 m below sea level.
We coated the large pipes with diameters of 939 mm, lengths of 12 m and a unit weight of 13.5 tonnes on the insides and on the outsides. We used the automatic flame-spraying method developed by us for coating the outer surfaces. The applied coating system is a 3-layered polypropylene-coating with a layer thickness of 4 mm. The pipe insides were treated by FlowCoat coating to optimise the flowing behaviour of natural gas.
Processing took place in our factory in Kreuztal.
