They will be formulated and tested coatings with three different types of resins (to choose between acrylic, alkyd, epoxy and urethanes) and with two types of non-toxic anticorrosive pigments (with anodic action, as Zn, Al, and Fe phosphates, and cathodic action, as cerium salts) applied on steel with five different types of superficial preparation: bushed with St-2 grade, prepared with abrasive blasting to grades Sa-3 and Sa 2, weathered and not weathered galvanised.

They will be testing that permit to know not alone its global behaviour before the action of the atmospheric agents, but also what are the principal mechanisms of the degradation in each case.

The development of this project will permit the collaborative and sponsor company to acquire some technological and scientific basic knowledge behavioural of the water-borne coatings for may to market in a future types of anticorrosive paintings for industrial uses that present an alternative to most of the current conventional paintings, that they are of base organic solvents, form the points of view of the safety for the workers and for the environment, upon reducing considerably the fires and explosion risks and not to be pollutants, because the formulations have very low VOC contents, well below any current or projected regulatory limit.