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11019 Stainless Steel Plumbing
Nickel Institute reference book series, 1997. Today stainless steels are used more and more in
potable water systems. The information in this booklet is tailored for designers, plumbers, end-users,
maintenance engineers and others interested in providing reliable potable water systems. It covers: the
nature of stainless steel; corrosion resistance; disinfection of stainless steel; tubing standards; fittings;
fabrication and handling.
10076 Guidelines for the Use of Stainless Steel in Municipal Waste Water Treament
Plants
By Arthur H. Tuthill Stainless steel piping has become a standard material of construction for municipal
waste water treatment plants built in the United States over the past 25 years. Since the late 1960s, over
1600 municipal waste water treatment plants have been built with stainless steel aeration piping, transfer
piping for digester gas and sludge, sliding gates, valves, tanks, screens, hand rails, and other equipment.
Stainless steel was selected originally over galvanized and painted carbon steel to reduce the higher
maintenance and replacement cost associated with these less corrosion-resistant materials. Overall experience
has been good to excellent.
10072 Water Supply Wells for Reverse Osmosis Plants
By C.D. Hornburg a: In the last 20 years, limited fresh water supplies in many coastal areas have
led to increases in the development and utilization of brackish water treatment technologies. Reverse osmosis
(RO) is the most commonly used of these technologies. Most RO treatment plants in the USA use brackish ground
water or fresh water (membrane softening) as the source of supply. However, many RO plants in the Caribbean
and Middle East use sea water as feed.
10003 Reverse Osmosis -- Which Stainless Steel to Use?
By J. W. Oldfield and Brian Todd, reprinted from Middle East Water and Sewage, Oct 1986. Stainless
steels are well suited to the requirements of reverse osmosis as their resistance to aqueous corrosion is
high, thus avoiding potential membrane-scaling ions contaminating the process. Describes the behaviour of
stainless steels in aqueous environments and assists in selection of suitable alloys for particular
conditions.
12005 A Report on the Performance of Stainless Steel Pipe for Water Supply in Underground Soil
Environments
Two-volume report, published by Japan Stainless Steel Association, and the Nickel Institute, 1988.
Contains extensive corrosion data and color photographs on nickel-containing stainless steel,carbon steel,
copper and lead pipes tested in 25 widely-separated geographic locations in Japan.
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10008 H2O: Nickel's Contribution to Distilled Water, Dams and Condensers
By Arthur H. Tuthill, presented at symposium, the Metallurgical Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining
and Metallurgy (CIM) and Nickel Institute, Toronto, Aug 17-20, 1986; reprinted from CIM Proceedings, Nickel
Metallurgy, Series No. 25-7/6/1/3, Vol. 1, (2), 1986. Nickel alloys are used extensively in the production,
handling and treatment of high purity, natural and waste waters. The corrosion resistance of these alloys in
various waters is examined. Examples from nickel's contribution in applications ranging from hospitals
through large-scale dams, municipal treatment plants and power plants are provided.
