Category: ‘Corrosion’

Copper Corrosion Copper Pipe Corrosion Prevention Solution

January 3, 2012

Copper have good resistance to corrosion in urban, marine, and industrial atmospheres. The major factors that control the initial rate of attack on copper are moisture, temperature, and the level of pollution. Soon after exposure... Read More...

Aluminum Galvanic Corrosion

January 3, 2012

Galvanic corrosion occurs when two dissimilar metals having different electrical potentials are electrically connected. Aluminum and Aluminum alloys become the anode in galvanic cells with most metals. The rate of galvanic corro... Read More...

Avoidance of Galvanic Corrosion

January 3, 2012

The methods for avoidance of galvanic corrosion are in general suggested by the above descriptions of the conditions necessary for its occurrence. Don’t Mix Metals. If only one material is used in a construction the problem is... Read More...

Passive Surface Films and effect on Galvanic Corrosion

January 3, 2012

Stainless steel naturally form passive surface films this is what makes them “stainless”. This film also reduces the amount of current available for corrosion, so slows the corrosion rate down compared to some other galvanic ... Read More...

The Area Effect of Galvanic Corrosion

January 3, 2012

The relative area of the anode and cathode has a pronounced effect upon the amount of corrosion that occurs due to Galvanic Corrosion. A small anode (the less noble metal, such as aluminium) joined to a large cathode (the more n... Read More...

What Conditions are Needed For Galvanic Corrosion

January 3, 2012

For galvanic corrosion to occur there are three conditions which must be met: Condition 1. Metals must be far apart on the galvanic series The galvanic or electrochemical series ranks metals according to their potential, gen... Read More...

Galvanic Corrosion Bimetallic Corrosion

January 3, 2012

Galvanic corrosion is a localised corrosion mechanism by which metals can be preferentially corroded. This type or form of corrosion has the potential to attack junctions of metals, or regions where one construction metal is ch... Read More...

Zirconium Zircadyne Applications

January 2, 2012

One of the major applications for Zircadyne® zirconium is as a structural material in the chemical processing industry. Zircadyne® zirconium exhibits excellent resistance to corrosive attack in most organic and inorganic acids,... Read More...

Standard Practices for Performing Metallographic Procedures

December 26, 2011

The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Committee E-4 on Metallography, established in 1916, is responsible for many of them. To learn more about ASTM Committee E-4, please read the excellent history from the May '... Read More...

Books About Metallography Metallographic

December 26, 2011

There are dozens of books relating to metallography. George L. Kehl's book The Principles of Metallographic Laboratory Practice, McGraw-Hill, 1949 was once the metallographer's bible. It still makes interesting reading, if just t... Read More...

Influence of Hydrochloric Acid HCl corrosion on the mechanical properties of concrete

December 25, 2011

Corrosion damage in three types of concrete (C25, C45, and C55), resulting from Hydrochloric Acid HCL with various contents, was investigated by comparing the mechanical properties of different types of concrete and their ... Read More...

Investigation on some Schiff bases as HCl corrosion inhibitors for carbon steel

December 25, 2011

Potentiodynamic polarisation and ac impedance studies were carried out on the inhibition of carbon steel in 0.1 M Hydrochloric acid HCl solution by various Schiff bases containing heteroaromatic substituents. The examined Sch... Read More...

Sulfuric acid H2SO4 more corrosive to steel than hydrochloric acid HCl

December 25, 2011

Sulfuric acid H2SO4 is not necessarily more corrosive to steel than hydrochloric acid HCl. The corrosion rate is dependent on many factors including concentration of the acid, temperature, type of steel, contaminants, and velocit... Read More...

Corrosion behavior of nickel and nickel alloys in HCl and its inhibition by natural rosemary oil

December 25, 2011

The corrosion behavior of nickel, Inconel 600 and Inconel 690 was studied in different concentrations of HCl Hydrochloric Acids solution and its inhibition by natural rosemary oil using galvanostatic polarization techniques. It w... Read More...

Corrosion by Material and Media

October 30, 2011

To help you make the best material decisions for your application zx52 has provided a variety of corrosion data by material and media.  This collection of information includes experimental data and data from reference books. ... Read More...

Why Stainless Steel Corrodes

September 26, 2011

The magazine "Nature" published two articles in the February 14th 2002 which reported research work done at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, by Mary P. Ryan and co-workers. This publication sets out to clarif... Read More...

Introduction to Corrosion Resistance

September 24, 2011

The corrosion resistance of stainless steel arises from a passive, chromium-rich, oxide film that forms naturally on the surface of the steel. Although extremely thin at 1-5 nanometres (i.e. 1-5 x 10-9 metres) thick, this protect... Read More...

Corrosion tables and Corrosion handbook

September 24, 2011

The corrosion tables show the anticipated resistance of a range of stainless steel grades to a wide range of chemicals (including most common acids). This can be used in the same way as the corrosion handbook. The link opens the ... Read More...

Grade selection to avoid localised forms of corrosion

September 24, 2011

With appropriate grade selection of stainless steel, will give good corrosion resistance. However, the choice of an inappropriate grade can result in failure by perforation or catastrophic cracking in shorter times than failure b... Read More...

Recommended Change-Out Schedule For Electronic Grade Gas Filters

September 6, 2011

Halogenated gases are employed in semiconductor manufacturing for a wide number of processes, including plasma etching of polysilicon, diffusion furnace cleaning and oxidation processes. The selection of components for use in a... Read More...

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