CASE STUDY Repairs Complete Despite Rising Tides and Rainstorms Innovative Engineering Restores Seawater Discharge Pipe Challenge A large chemical company on the U.S. Gulf Coast utilized seawater for plant cooling, but the decades-old cast iron recirculation pipe was corroded from the seawater and leaking badly. There was a large crack where the pipe was embedded in a concrete wall as well as multiple interior cracks on the pipe that was inside the wall, making repairs technically challenging. Plant personnel had made temporary repairs to stem the leaking but, long-term, they were faced with tearing out the wall and replacing all the piping – a solution that would have required shutting down the unit for weeks. Solution DowAksa offered a less disruptive – and less costly – alt

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