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The enormous cost of corrosion to industry can be significantly reduced through effective corrosion testing and monitoring. This corrosion short course aims to present to the technologists and engineers a dozen of corrosion testing and monitoring techniques that can be used to solve many of their most tedious and persistent corrosion problems. The corrosion course will provide the participants with a thorough understanding of the basic principles and the practical applications of some simple yet powerful techniques in corrosion testing and monitoring. For each technique, a step by step guide for performing the corrosion measurements will be described. This course provides an excellent avenue for corrosion practitioners, researchers, designers, technical managers, inspection and maintenance engineers, quality control personnel and those involved in failure analysis to update their appreciation of modern techniques for corrosion testing and monitoring.

This course covers a wide range of corrosion testing and monitoring techniques from conventional weight loss coupons, electrical resistance (ER) and linear polarization resistance (LPR) to advanced electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) for routine applications such as rapid screening of corrosion inhibitors, materials selection, failure analysis, corrosion rate measurement, life prediction, evaluation of paints, coatings, electroplating, on-line monitoring of industrial processes, determination of resistance to pitting and crevice corrosion, and the degree of sensitization of stainless steels and alloys.

By the end of this course delegates will learn about:

·       Basics of Corrosion Measurements

·       Corrosion Testing and Monitoring Techniques

·       Corrosion Monitoring

·       Applications of Corrosion Testing and Monitoring Techniques

Corrosion Control Engineers & Personnel, Process Engineers, Metallurgists, Inspection Personnel, Mechanical Engineers, Material Selection Personnel, Plant Contractors, Operations Engineers, Team Leaders & Supervisors, Maintenance Supervisors,  Senior Plant Supervisors, Mechanical Engineers, Corrosion Control & Monitoring Systems Personnel, Oil and Gas Production Facilities Personnel, Chemists, Chemical Engineers, Technicians and Supervisors, New Petroleum Engineers, Asset Management Personnel, Design & Construction Engineers, Team Leaders & Coordinators, Construction Coordinators, Maintenance Engineers, Technologists,  Maintenance Team Leaders & Engineers, Personnel who are / will be responsible for detecting, inspecting, monitoring, controlling corrosion in oil and gas piping, pipelines used in production operations and Personnel responsible for metallurgy, corrosion or the prevention of failures in plant and equipment

Basics of Corrosion Measurements

·     Corrosion and society

·     The need for corrosion testing and monitoring

·     Terminology and conventions, The nature of corrosion process

·     Classification of corrosion test, Electrochemistry and corrosion

Corrosion Testing and Monitoring Techniques

·     Technique No.1: weight loss coupon

·     Technique No.2: electrical resistance (ER)

·     Technique No.3: linear polarisation resistance (LPR)

·     Technique No.4: Tafel polarisation

·     Technique No.5: potentiodynamic anodic polarisation

·     Technique No.6: potentiostatic polarisation

·     Technique No.7: cyclic polarisation for pitting test

·     Technique No.8: Electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation (EPR) for sensitisation test

·     Technique No.9: ZRA for galvanic corrosion of welded structures and components

·     Technique No.10: electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)

·     Technique No.11: electrochemical noise

·     Technique No.12: hydrogen monitoring

Corrosion Monitoring

·     Why use corrosion monitoring

·     Direct methods of corrosion monitoring

·     On-line monitoring system components and functions

·     Principle corrosion monitoring methods

·     Where & when to use it, How much does it cost

Applications of Corrosion Testing & Monitoring Techniques

·     Quality control, performance evaluation

·     Process optimization of plating bath in electroplating and electroless plating

·     Quality control, performance evaluation

·     Process optimization in chromating and anodizing operations

·     Impedance and admittance measurements on anodized aluminum/magnesium alloys

·     Coatings performance evaluation

·     Equivalent circuit modelling and life-prediction of  organic coatings & paints

·     Determining the effect of surface preparation

·     Optimal coating thickness, edge effect,  coating delamination

·     Condition assessment of coating systems after thermal shock, seawater flooding etc.

·     Corrosion resistance of metal-matrix composite

·     Corrosion inhibitor: efficiency, selection and screening

·     Corrosion measurements for bridges, water tanks, buildings, lampposts and other structures