Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials: Volume 27 Issue 3

The effect of chemical composition of water on corrosion problems in plant

Hector S. Campbell

Introduction Demineralised oxygen‐free water with a pH of 7–8 is practically non‐corrosive to most metals, but the range of water compositions that we more commonly meet in water…

Use of electrochemical techniques for corrosion prevention and control in the process industries

G. Bombara, U. Bernabai

Electrochemical techniques are described of direct use to chemical processors for optimum material selection in designing and maintaining new plants as well as corrosion…

New electrophoretic enamelling plant

Cannon Industries Ltd., have opened a £3/4m. completely automated, electrophoretic enamelling plant for their gas cookers and fires at their Bilston, West Midlands works.

Studies on metal corrosion in lindane plant and quantitative estimation by SEM

J.S. Venugopal, M. Jayaram, S.K. Majumder

Lindane, a powerful and widely used insecticide is manufactured from hexachlorocyclohexane. One of the many by‐products in the process is X‐factor, a highly potent insecticide…

Low temperature pretreatment saves £5,000 per year

Low temperature metal surface cleaning and phosphating processes developed by Pyrene Chemical Services Ltd., are said to be saving £8,370 per year in energy costs at the Bradford…

Early protection techniques: Part 8

C.A. Smith

The interesting feature of this first device (Fig. 1) by Uyeno is that it had a combined aluminium coating and burnishing action. The wire to be coated with aluminium was first…