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CORROSION COMMENTARY
LIGHTING FOR INDUSTRY. Lighting equipment may be a particular source of danger under some industrial conditions, due to abnormal corrosion, or to the risk of explosion or fire…
PIPE‐WRAPPING MATERIALS: FOR CORROSION PROTECTION
J.G. Parry, J.R. JamesIn the early days of pipe protection, it was thought that any coating reinforced with any type of wrapping could not fail to extend the life of a buried pipeline system. Today, as…
PIPE PROTECTION TAPES AND WRAPPING MACHINES: Full Range on the Market
IN Great Britain the heaviest corrosion of buried pipelines occurs in neutral waterlogged clay soils, which lie in belts across the country. This type of corrosion—not fully…
POLYVINYL CHLORIDE TAPES FOR PIPE PROTECTION
K.S. ChittyIt would be easy to make the general statement that the only major factor an engineer need consider when selecting a pipe‐protection material is that it should resist corrosion…
PIPELINE PROTECTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST — PART 2: Preparing the Ground and Checking the Results
L.R. SparrowAfter dealing in Part 1 with the actual corrosion of pipelines under the varied atmospheric and ground conditions in the Middle East, Mr. Sparrow deals with practical problems in…
ADVANCES IN NON‐CONSUMABLE ANODES: Development of Titanium/Platinum
The economic value of the development of titanium/platinum, which makes available an anode material as efficient as platinum at much lower cost, needs no emphasis. Its potential…
Rural District Council Tackles Sewage Problem
Mention of public works in the Midlands may lead one to think of the gigantic national trunk road schemes which are at present transforming the landscape, but, as always, public…
PRODUCTS and PROCESSES: PROVIDING INDUSTRY WITH THE MEANS TO COMBAT CORROSION
‘Waxolan’ Protective Coating. Steel items are protected from corrosion under simulated tropical humidity conditions (100% relative humidity at 42° to 48°C.) for more than ten days…
Recent Books: Plastics Application—Two New Books Issued
Epoxy Resins, by Irving Skeist and George R. Somerville. Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York (Chapman & Hall Ltd., London), 1958. Pp. 293, illus. 44s. This textbook outlines…
Technical Literature
‘Fibreglass’ for Corrosion Control of Buried Pipelines. Fibreglass Ltd. A booklet produced by Fibreglass Ltd. gives the principal causes of corrosion of buried pipelines and…
PEOPLE
Board Changes in the Geigy Group. After almost 50 years with Geigy, C. F. GYSIN has retired as chairman of the board of Geigy (Holdings) Ltd. of Manchester, and in consequence a…
CORROSION RESEARCH ROUND‐UP
U.S.S.R. Effect of pH value on iron corrosion. The solubility of iron in media of sufficiently high acidity proceeds mainly through hydrogen depolarisation and without formation…
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