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Sweating insulation

01/16/2010 5:04 AM

I've applied 100 mm thick Rubber insulation over a 1400 dia Pipe carrying 4.5 deg C Chilled water.Now the Rubber insulation which has the built in vapour barrier is sweating and the sweting water is travelling inside the isulation through the sealing joints and spearding like cancer making all the insulation wet.The Insulation apllied in 2 layer ie.50 mm each.Luckily the inner layer is safe .The air temeparture around the pipe is 28 deg C and the RH is 80% whice the selection of the insulation to 90 mm thick is based on 35 deg C and 90 % RH.

can any body help me

1)How to pver ove this issue

2) How to repair the insulation as i'm able to peel of the soaked/soggy outter layer

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Re: Sweating insulation

01/17/2010 5:54 AM

any sweating from inside the Insulation,to me indicates air infiltration and that would mean you need to find it and seal it. now in the past I have always glued the insulation tight to the vessel/pipe (on anything larger than or 4 inches) and made extra sure the joints are tight.

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Re: Sweating insulation

01/17/2010 9:23 AM

Depending on your particular situation, you could consider; 1) Air conditioning the ambient air to lower its dew point appropriately 2) Use metallized insulation so the water will condense on the metal before the vapor penetrates the rubber, 3) install a coaxial metal pipe and purge the space between the pipes with dry gas.

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01/17/2010 11:28 AM

Have you checked the required insulation thk? Even for 200nb pipe, 100mm insulation thk will be required. PUF insulation is better than rubber insulation. Sealing of all insulation joints with flexible roll insulation of 3mm thk is a must

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Re: Sweating insulation

01/17/2010 12:12 PM

"1)How to pver ove this issue" Please re-state the question - I cannot even guess what you're asking. If English is not your first language, can you ask someone else to translate? Or ask in your own language (identify it in the subject line, if possible) and let someone else translate here.

The more information that you can provide, the better chance that someone here can help. To do so, we MUST understand the problem as fully as possible.

There are many kinds of "rubber" Can you identify the chemical type, or the brand? Is it a foam? Does it have a continuous "skin" on at least one surface? Is it two or more separate layers (or is the vapor barrier of the same material?), and how are they held together? How is is applied: adhesive, external ties, over-wrapping with another material? If you remove sections, can they be dried and re-applied, or replaced in sections? Could you perhaps wrap a waterproof material around the outside, such as a spiral wrap of a plastic or solid rubber sheeting, with an adhesive to seal the joint? If such a wrap can be obtained in 5-meter-wide rolls, it could be applied in-line, and would permit an overlap that could be sealed, possibly with an adhesive, or with edges together, folded to put the opening inside a rolled-up seam. Where there are penetrations for support or other reasons, can you fill the void with RTV or another material to seal against water penetration?

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