Low-friction pipe support liners
Pipes sliding across steel supports grind through coatings and trap moisture, driving corrosion and metal loss at every contact point.
The need for low-friction pipe support liners
BHI Coatings performs low-friction pipe support liners across Alvin and the Texas Gulf Coast. Every time the line expands and contracts, a pipe sliding across a bare steel support grinds its own coating off at the contact face. Exposed metal then traps water at the shoe, and corrosion works on the pipe and the support in a spot nobody can see. Wall loss under a support is a common cause of unplanned line repairs on Texas Gulf Coast units.
How BHI Coatings does low-friction pipe support liners
We install a low-friction liner at the support so the pipe glides instead of grinding. That liner isolates the pipe coating from the steel and lets the support shed water rather than hold it. Our crew preps the contact face, applies the system cold with no hot work near the line, and seats the liner so it survives the thermal cycling that wrecks bare supports.
The line moves freely and stops sanding its own coating off. The support sheds water instead of trapping it, and contact-point corrosion stops driving wall loss at the shoe.
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