Marine paints

J. C. Harrington, Comparative Effects of Organic Mntifoulant Biocides in Marine Paints, 29th Marine and Offshore Coatings Conference, Chadeston, S.C., June 28,1989. 

Vinyl acetate polymers have long been used as chewing gum bases. They have been studied as controUed release agents for programmed administration of dmgs and as a base for antifouling marine paints (166,167). 

These apply also to marine painting, but here additional factors must be taken into account. The present action refers specially to differences between ships painting and structural steel painting. 

Details of typical marine painting systems are set out in Table 14.5. 

The widespread use of many metals such as silver, cadmium, copper, mercury, nickel, lead, and zinc has resulted in their accumulation in the environment. Sediments are often the repositories of toxic metals (e.g.. Table 15-2). For example, copper is used as an anti-biofouling agent in marine paints and many harbor sediments contain markedly elevated levels of copper. 

Tributyltin and triphenyltin compounds are used as wood preservative fungicides, agrochemical fungicides, and as miticides and biocides in marine paints. 

Triorganotins Agrochemical fungicides, herbicides, miticides, insecticides, nematocides, acaracides, antifeedants biocide in marine paints slimicide in paper pulp mills and cooling towers rodent repellent molluscicides wood preservative fungicides disinfectants stone preservation textile, paper, and leather protection (Piver 1973 Hunter 1976 Kumpulainen and Koivistoinen 1977 CEC 1978 WHO 1980 Davies and Smith 1982 Chau etal. 1984 Subramanian 1984 Wilkinson 1984 Blunden etal. 1985 Maguire and Tkacz 1985 Thompson etal. 1985 Blunden and Chapman 1986 USPHS 1992). 

Berendsen, A. M., Marine painting manual, Graham Trotman, Kluwer Acedemic Publishers Group (1989)... 

Some common uses are in electrical wiring and components of electronic equipment, roofing, and pipes and plumbing and in the manufacturing of alloys such as brass, bronze, Monel metal, electroplating, jewelry, cooking utensils, insecticides, marine paints, cosmetics, and wood preservatives. 

Like the natural iron oxide pigments, the synthetics are used for colouring concrete, bitumen, asphalt, tiles, bricks, ceramics and glass. They are also used extensively in house and marine paints. Because the shapes of the particles can be accurately controlled and the particle size distribution is narrow, synthetic iron oxides have a greater tinting strength than the natural ones and so, are chosen where paint colour is important, i. e., for top coats. Red iron oxides are used in primers for automobiles and steel structures. 

Copper(l) cyanide is used in copper plating of nickel, chromium, zinc alloys, steel, and other metals or alloys. Such copper plating imparts brightness, smoothness, hardness, and strength. The cyanide solution employed for copper electroplating consists of copper cyanide and sodium cyanide. Other apph-cations of this compound are as an insecticide, a catalyst in polmerization, and as an antifouling agent in marine paints. 

The observation that imposex occurred primarily in marinas suggested causality with some contaminant originating from such facilities. Field experiments demonstrated that neogastropods transferred from pristine sites to marinas often developed imposex. Laboratory studies eventually implicated tributyltin, a biocide used in marine paints, as the cause of imposex. Tributyltin is toxic to most marine species evaluated in the... 

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