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Handy Table on Surface Contamination

30. March 2009

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NAVY SEA Systems Command Materials Engineering Group Codes SEA 03M12.5 2531 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, VA 22242-5160 Soluble Substances Table 1 (P & W Hand Held Hydroblast Unit)

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Inspection Manual for Flash Rust

18. March 2009

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Inspection Manual for Flash RustSupplement to Standard Photograph Guides Supplement to VIS-4 December 29, 2008 Prepared for Advanced Technology Institute SSA: No. 2008-326 Prepared by Lydia M. Frenzel, Ph.D. Fat Squirrel 22, LLC On behalf of Project Participants: Todd Pacific Shipyard- Lead Shipyard Project Goals and Objective: This document is a supplement to SSPC-VIS No. [...]

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Paint Removal

16. May 2008

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Seems like paint removal ought to be a simple concept, right? But how much paint do you remove to remove half of the paint? How do you sample an area to show that you left 75% of a coating?

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Radioactive Contamination

16. May 2008

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Removal of Surface Radiation from Steel- Dry Blasting compared to Ultra-High Pressure Water UHP WJ is routinely used to remove surface radiation from steel in nuclear plants.    John S. Oechsle Jr., who is now retired, worked with S.G. Pinney & Assoc. in Florida and prior to that in the 1950’s worked with Metalweld and [...]

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Calculating Erosion

16. May 2008

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Calculation of Erosion in terms of energy per square area per minute per hydraulic horsepower. One of the major UHP pump manufacturers has studied this erosion and energy concentration at length as they sell both cleaning and cutting equipment. A typical surface cleaning application is 0.8 liters/minute (3 gallons per minute) at 280 MPa (40,000 [...]

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