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Handbook of corrosion engineering : modern theory, fundamentals and practical applications / Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Chandrabhan Verma, Jeenat Aslam, Ruby Aslam, Saman Zehra.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ScienceDirect)
Main Authors: Hussain, Chaudhery Mustansar (Author), Verma, Chandrabhan (Author), Aslam, Jeenat (Author), Aslam, Ruby (Author), Zehra, Saman (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, [2023]
Subjects:
Corrosion and anti-corrosives.
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Handbook of Corrosion Engineering
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • About the authors
  • 1 Fundamentals of corrosion & forms of corrosion
  • 1 Basics of corrosion and its impact
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Impact of corrosion
  • 1.2.1 Costs of repairing damage caused by corrosion
  • 1.2.1.1 Percentage of GDP
  • 1.2.2 The Uhlig report
  • 1.2.3 The Hoar report (1971)
  • 1.2.4 The input/output economic report
  • 1.2.5 US FHWA study (2002)
  • 1.2.6 India (2011-12)
  • 1.2.7 US (2016) International Measures of Prevention, Application, and Economics of Corrosion Technologies study
  • 1.2.8 Devastative corrosion accidents
  • 1.2.9 Environmental threats
  • 1.3 Corrosion science vs. corrosion engineering
  • 1.4 Reasons to study corrosion
  • 1.5 Corrosion education
  • 1.6 Units of corrosion rates
  • 1.7 Corrosion cell
  • 1.7.1 Anode
  • 1.7.2 Cathode
  • 1.7.3 Metallic path
  • 1.7.4 Current flow
  • 1.8 Types of corrosion cells
  • 1.8.1 Dissimilar electrode cells or galvanic
  • 1.8.2 Concentration cells
  • 1.8.3 Electrolytic cell
  • 1.8.4 Differential temperature cells
  • 1.9 Electrochemical aspects of various types of electrodes
  • 1.9.1 Silver-silver chloride reference electrode
  • 1.9.2 Saturated calomel electrode
  • 1.9.3 The hydrogen electrode
  • 1.9.4 Copper-copper sulfate electrode
  • 1.9.5 Junction potentials
  • 1.10 EMF series
  • 1.10.1 Applications of EMF series
  • 1.10.2 Limitation of EMF series
  • 1.11 Galvanic series
  • 1.11.1 Characteristics of the galvanic series
  • 1.11.2 Limitations of the galvanic series
  • 1.12 Awards in the field of corrosion
  • Useful websites
  • Short questions
  • References
  • 2 Uniform or general corrosion
  • 2.1 Occurrence
  • 2.1.1 Uniform or general corrosion
  • 2.1.1.1 Occurrence
  • 2.2 Examples of uniform corrosion
  • 2.3 Mechanism of uniform corrosion
  • 2.4 Factors affecting uniform corrosion
  • 2.5 Prevention methods
  • 2.6 Failure case histories
  • 2.6.1 Case 1: failure of a distillation column wall
  • 2.6.2 Case 2: Severe corrosion of carbon steel pipe: A carbon steel pipe carrying brackish water was found to be severely c...
  • Useful websites
  • Short questions
  • References
  • 3 Galvanic corrosion
  • 3.1 Occurrence
  • 3.2 Causes
  • 3.2.1 Galvanic series
  • 3.2.2 Limitations of galvanic series
  • 3.3 Factors affecting galvanic corrosion
  • 3.3.1 Electrode potential
  • 3.3.2 Electrode efficiency
  • 3.3.3 Area ratio
  • 3.3.4 Environments
  • 3.3.4.1 Electrolyte
  • 3.3.4.2 Aeration and flow rate
  • 3.3.5 Natural waters
  • 3.4 Examples of galvanic corrosion
  • 3.5 Prevention of galvanic corrosion
  • 3.5.1 By incorporating insulation in between dissimilar metal
  • 3.5.2 Absence of electrolyte
  • 3.5.3 By selecting the materials closer in galvanic series
  • 3.5.4 By controlling the size of cathode and anode in dissimilar metals
  • 3.5.5 Metallic and nonmetallic coating
  • 3.5.6 Corrosion inhibitors
  • 3.5.7 Countercurrent devices
  • 3.6 Advantages of galvanic corrosion
  • 3.7 Case histories

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