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Process, Plant Design, Operations, and Business: From Zero to Start-Up
One volume that combines academic foundation, full process expertise, greenfield plant development and complete business operations. Written from direct operational experience: not from a library, but from the kettle floor.
Written for students, engineers, fabricators, plant managers and investors. The four parts follow the order in which a galvanizing career, or a galvanizing plant, is actually built.
Why steel corrodes, how zinc protects it, and the metallurgy of the coating itself: the foundation every later decision rests on.
The full process line from surface preparation through pickling, fluxing and the zinc bath to inspection, with the chemistry and the control points behind each step.
Plant design from zero: sizing the kettle for the market, dimensioning the tank line, material flow and layout, then equipment, civil and structural, utilities and environmental systems.
Running the plant as a business: operations management, quality systems and certification, cost control, zinc reconciliation and the KPIs that decide whether a plant makes money.
The HDG Standards Library maps every referenced ASTM, ISO, EN and SSPC/NACE document to the chapters that use it. This is that map, by chapter.
| Chapter | Standards referenced |
|---|---|
| Ch. 1 | ISO 14713‑1:2017 |
| Ch. 2 | ISO 14713‑1:2017, ISO 9224 |
| Ch. 3 | ISO 14713‑1:2017, ISO 12944‑1:2017, ISO 12944‑2:2017, ISO 9227, ISO 9224, EN 10143, EN 10346 |
| Ch. 4 | ASTM A123/A123M‑24, ASTM A385/A385M‑17(R2023), ASTM A36, ISO 1461:2022, EN 10025, EN 10204 |
| Ch. 5 | EN 10163‑3 |
| Ch. 6 | ASTM B6‑23, ASTM B860, ASTM B960, ISO 752, EN 1179, EN 13283 |
| Ch. 7 | ASTM A123/A123M‑24, ISO 1461:2022, ISO 1463 |
| Ch. 8 | ASTM A123/A123M‑24, ASTM A153/A153M‑23, ASTM A780/A780M‑20, ASTM A767/A767M‑19, ASTM A1094/A1094M, ASTM B602, ASTM A90/A90M, ASTM A239‑14, ASTM E376, ISO 1461:2022, ISO 1460:2020, EN ISO 10684, ISO 2178:2016, ISO 1463, EN 10143, EN 10240, EN 10244‑2, EN 10346 |
| Ch. 9 | ASTM A123/A123M‑24, ASTM A153/A153M‑23, ASTM A780/A780M‑20, ASTM A143/A143M‑22, ASTM A384/A384M‑17(R2024), ASTM A385/A385M‑17(R2023), ASTM A767/A767M‑19, ASTM A36, ASTM A563, ASTM E376, ASTM D6386‑22, ASTM D7803‑12, ISO 1461:2022, ISO 14713‑1:2017, ISO 14713‑2:2020, EN ISO 10684, EN 10025, EN 10163‑3, EN 10204 |
| Ch. 10 | ASTM A123/A123M‑24, ASTM A153/A153M‑23, ASTM A780/A780M‑20, ASTM A143/A143M‑22, ASTM A384/A384M‑17(R2024), ASTM D6386‑22, ASTM D7803‑12, SSPC‑SP2, SSPC‑SP10 / NACE No.2, SSPC‑SP11, ISO 1461:2022, ISO 2063‑2:2017, ISO 2178:2016 |
| Ch. 11 | ASTM A153/A153M‑23, ASTM A780/A780M‑20, ASTM D3359, ASTM D4541, ASTM D6386‑22, ASTM D7803‑12, SSPC‑SP2, SSPC‑SP10 / NACE No.2, SSPC‑SP11, ISO 1461:2022, ISO 14713‑1:2017, ISO 14713‑2:2020, ISO 12944‑1:2017, ISO 12944‑2:2017, ISO 12944‑4:2017, ISO 12944‑5:2019, ISO 12944‑6:2018, ISO 12944‑7:2017, ISO 12944‑8:2017, ISO 12944‑9:2018, ISO 2063‑2:2017, ISO 2409, ISO 4624, ISO 2808:2019, ISO 9227, ISO 16276‑2, EN 13438 |
| Ch. 12 | ISO 14713‑2:2020 |
| Ch. 13 | ASTM B6‑23, ASTM B860, ASTM B960, EN 10240 |
| Ch. 17 | ASTM B6‑23 |
| Ch. 19 | ASTM A123/A123M‑24 |
| Ch. 20 | ASTM B6‑23 |
| Ch. 21 | ASTM B6‑23 |
| Ch. 23 | ASTM A780/A780M‑20, ASTM B602, ASTM E376, ISO 9001 |
Chapters without a standards reference are the science, market and business chapters. The full chapter list is published with the launch announcement.
The English edition comes first, on Amazon KDP. A second-language edition is planned; the language and timing are announced with the launch.
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