Heavy Test Equipment - MERIDIAN Salt Spray Machine (Environmental Testing Chamber)

Types of Salt Spray Machines, from Meridian Instruments.

Introduction

Salt Spray Machines are Accelerated Environmental Testing Chambers used to Test & Analyse the Limits of a Base Material and/or its Surface Coatings’ corrosion resistance.

*Corrosion resistance: a material’s resistance against its reaction towards adverse elements that can corrode it.

Base materials can be stone, ceramic, polymers, metals, etc.

• Applied with the following finishing: 
• Paint/Metallic Coatings, Electroplating, Anodising, etc.

Applicants & Application:

• Automotive Industries - To evaluate how the vehicle’s paint/coating or base metallic material can withstand the salty exposure from fog/mists.

• Marine/Shipping Industries - To measure their ships/boats paint/coating’s corrosive resistance after long exposure in the sea.

• Surface Coating Industries - To check if their coating withstand seaside exposure for clients in the construction industry (for building metallic overhead bridges above seawater bed).

And other related industries that would like to test the corrosive resistance of their products.

How does it work?

(1) Once the samples are placed & sealed within in the Salt Spray Machine, the user will set the chamber to produce a fog (also referred to as mist/spray) of salt water solution. 

(2) This creates a corrosive testing environment that will attack anything that is sensitive to corrosion. i.e. the protective layer/surface coating of the substrate. 

(3) Thus allowing the users to test the corrosion resistance of their samples easily and effectively in a controlled area/environment.

This process is known as salt spray (or salt fog) test.

(4) After the end of the test, the user will know which base material / finishing, provides the most suitable protection against corrosion.

< Chamber spray volumes vary from supplier to supplier. If there is a minimum volume required, users are expected to comply to all salt spray tests standards as stated and compiled by the supplier of the machine. >

The ASTM G85 is the Standard Practice for Modified Salt Spray (Fog) Testing.

Other Related & Relevant standards include: 

• ASTM B117 - Standard Practice for Operating Salt Spray (Fog) Apparatus
• ISO 9227 - Corrosion tests in artificial atmospheres (Salt spray tests)
• JIS Z 2371 - (Methods Of Salt Spray Testing)

Technical Specification - MERIDIAN Salt Spray Machine:

For those interested, you can access the following link, below: 

http://meridianinstruments.com/products/environmental-chamber/salt-spray-machine.html 

Product Video:

MERIDIAN Salt Spray Corrosion Machine by Obsnap Instrument

For Product Enquiry, you can contact ngshonefone@obsnap.com

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Meridian Instruments specialises in Accelerated Weathering and Environmental test simulation equipment. Besides providing a wide range of Climatic Test Chambers like temperature and humidity test chamber, ozone test chamber, etc. Meridian also provides equipment like: salt spray machine, UV chamber, xenon test chamber, vibration test simulator, etc. (http://www.meridianinstruments.com)