Project: BYK Chemie, Secondary Containment Concrete Crack Repair
Location: Wallingford, CT.
Completed: November 1999
The owners of BYK Chemie in Connecticut found numerous cracks in the concrete secondary walls of two tank farms. This prompted the owners to consult an engineering firm for a solution to sealing the cracks thus insuring that if a spill occurred it would not migrate through the containment walls.
JWI proposed injecting all cracks as well as any suspect areas using the very low viscosity Duroseal Inject 2000. Chem-Tec and BYK officials agreed to the system proposed.
Since the tank farm housed large tanks of xylene, acetone and many other chemicals it was important that the secondary containment be completely leak proof. JWI was given the approval to proceed with the crack repair project.
In all approximately 890 linear feet of cracks and construction joints were injected successfully.