INDUSTRIAL PAINTING, CALCULATE PAINT CONSUMPTION
What is volume solids in painting-
All paints are made up of resign, pigments solvents and adhesive ( like stabilizers, anti-foams, and thickeners). After the paint is applied solvent evaporates and leaving only the dry SOLIDS in the form of a continuous coating. the solid can be expressed as a volume percentage of the entire volume of the can of paint.
example- if a solvent is half of the paint volume then we can say that the paint is 50% solid.
means if the wet film thickness is 100 microns means after drying we shall get 50 microns in thickness.