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Applications for the Offshore Wind Sector

BOC has a number of applications available for manufacturers in the offshore wind sector including LINDOFLAMM special burners for pre- and post-heating, LINSPRAY thermal spraying solutions, heat treatment and CRYOCLEAN CO2 blast cleaning.

LINDOFLAMM® special burners for pre- and post-heating

In order to weld segments of wind turbine towers – high strength steel plates which are up to 4 m wide and 12 cm thick – it is necessary to pre-heat then post-heat the segments. This is to remove the risk of hydrogen cracking, as stipulated in BS EN 1011-2:2001. To avoid production bottlenecks this process must be done rapidly, which is where BOC’s pioneering LINDOFLAMM® acetylene burners come in - heating up the steel twice as fast as conventional methods. Burners are made to suit each customer’s needs: some are designed for so-called longitudinal welds, and some for circular steel segments (circumferential welds), with a diameter of up to 7 m. They can be fully automated.

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LINSPRAY® thermal spraying solutions

From anti-corrosion coating to improved wear performance, thermal spray provides the perfect combination of high quality and cost effectiveness, with example usage being for gear & bearing surface treatments. Advantages are:

• numerous combinations of base material and coating material are possible
• high quality materials can be used to improve base material properties cost-effectively
• potential to repair high-grade worn parts reducing costs and downtime
• many processes are available including cold spraying, plasma spraying and arc spraying

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Heat treatment of turbine components

Example uses are for steel hardening and for hardening of gear and shaft components.

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CRYOCLEAN® treatment of blades and moulds

BOC’s innovative CO₂ blast cleaning process is dry, solvent-free, reduces downtime and causes no wear or damage to surfaces. These factors make it ideal when high quality and high productivity is essential.

Find out more about Cryoclean