Production of environmentally innocuous coatings

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Emilio Eguía López
Alfredo Trueba Ruiz

Abstract

It is known the biofouling phenomenon, as well as the negative consequences that it means for the artificial structures in contact with seawater in form of structural defects and of additional expenses for the companies which develop their work in the marine scope due to the processes of cleaning and prevention, the evolution in the world of the technology of antifouling paintings, once we analysed the serious environmental problems caused by an indiscriminate use of byocides of high toxicity in its composition as they are the organic derivatives of tin compounds made up and of the uncontrolled emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC) to the atmosphere, according to the present environmental norm, has as only aim to develop environmentally innocuous coverings based on water in which extracts of the very same marine world are used as byocides compounds.

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