Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Pitting Corrosion in the headspace of a 2-piece tinplate can.

Status
Not open for further replies.

elias36

Chemical
Mar 20, 2003
1
Anyone familiar with interior coating blisters forming in the head space of a sanitary metal cans. the blisters were accompanied with an underfilm pitting corrsion around the headspace areas?

Thanks for any help.
Elias
Petratek, Inc.
 
Replies continue below

Recommended for you

There is a recent and ongoing series of articles addressing your type of problem in the Magazine Spray Technology and Marketing. You can find them at The author explains these types of problems very well and he takes email requests for information. There are so many variables to evaluate, it cannot be fully addressed in this forum quickly: materials of container, method(s) of manufaturering, contents' compatibility, lining types and methods, sequence of processing and chemicals used, sequence of filling, vapor water content, etc.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor