Course Description:  

Corrosion is recognized as one of the most serious problems in our modern societies and the resulting losses each year are in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Cost of corrosion studies have been undertaken by several countries including, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Kuwait, Germany, Finland, Sweden, India, and China. The studies have ranged from formal and extensive efforts to informal and modest efforts. The common finding of these studies was that the annual corrosion costs ranged from approximately 1 to 5 percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) of each nation. This five day course is presented to help participants to learn basic of corrosion chemistry and all related topics about corrosion, and corrosion control systems. This course is presented to accomplish all experiences of who works in field of corrosion control and corrosion inspection.

Course Goal:

To enhance the participant’s knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to understand and apply recent technologies of corrosion control, inspection, and all different methods of corrosion monitoring for all types of corrosion

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course, participant will be able to:

1. Be aware of large corrosion costs and potential savings
2. Change the misconception that nothing can be done about corrosion
3. Understand policies, regulations, standards, and management practices to increase corrosion savings through sound corrosion management
4. Understand and apply corrosion management and control
5. Advance life prediction and performance assessment methods
6. Advance corrosion technology through research, development, and implementation.

Course Outline:

• Introduction to Corrosion

1. Chemistry review
2. Basic electrochemistry and corrosion in coolant systems
3. Basic corrosion measurements

• Hydrogen Effects & the Eight Forms of Corrosion

1. General Corrosion
2. Galvanic Corrosion
3. Crevice Corrosion
4. Pitting Corrosion
5. Intergranular Corrosion
6. Selective Leaching
7. Flow-Assisted Corrosion
8. Stress Corrosion
9. Hydrogen Effects

• Electrochemical Principles of Metal Corrosion

1. Thermodynamics of corrosion processes
2. Kinetics of corrosion processes

• Advanced Methods for Corrosion Measurement

1. Electrical methods
2. Electrochemical methods
3. Ultrasonic methods

• Materials Selection and Chemistry Effects

1. Inhibitors
2. Cathodic protection
3. Anodic protection
4. Coatings
5. Passivation
6. Aqueous Corrosion Thermodynamics