Corrosion Engineering Division

The purpose of the Corrosion Engineering Division is to ‘provide an informal forum for the exchange of ideas and information pertaining to Corrosion Engineering issues'.  More specifically the benefits of the CED to its members include:

• a mechanism for members to meet and discuss corrosionengineering issues related to their field of activity in the UK;
• a forum to facilitate the exchange of information and experience.
• a mechanism for members to jointly prepare documents that are of immediate and practical use to them in their field of activity (e.g. codes of practice, guidelines for processes and techniques, input to standards bodies, etc.).  Documents produced by the working groups will be downloadable through the ICorr web site for a small fee;
• a means of liaising with communicating with the working parties of international organisations (e.g. EFC, NACE working parties) and reducing the expense of travelling abroad to attend meetings.

The activities will be driven by the needs of the members, who can be
drawn from across the spectrum of member organisations (i.e. industry,
academia, research organisations, etc.). A number of working groups are in operation under the chairmanship of a nominated person.  Nick Smart (Serco Technical and Assurance Services) is the Chair of the Corrosion Engineering Division and reports on activities to the Council of the Institute; Douglas Mills is the coordinator for the CED and its working groups.  The current working groups are:

• Cathodic protection (chair Ross Fielding)
• Monitoring (chair Bill Cox)
• Nuclear (chair Nick Smart)
• Coatings (chair Brenda Peters)
• Oil-field chemicals (chair Peter Allison)
• Water treatment     (chair Pam Simpson)
• Corrosion in Concrete (chair John Broomfield)

Other groups could be started if there is sufficient support from the members.  It is anticipated that the working groups will operate both through holding topical meetings and through electronic media, making se of the Institute’s web site.  The chairs of the individual working groups will liaise with the corresponding working groups in international bodies such as EFC, NACE, WCO, ASTM, etc.  The CED activities will aim to be complimentary to the activities of these other bodies rather than competing.

Minutes Of Meetings

Minutes of all CED meetings will be available for download in the members area. Please note that these minutes are only available to ICorr members and you will need to be logged into the members area to download the minutes. If you are a member of the working group but are not a member of ICorr please contact Nick Smart who will be able to email provide the minutes via email.  nick.smart@serco.com

CED Working Day and Symposium on Corrosion  Monitoring

Thursday 29 April 2010

Venue:
The Centre
Birchwood Park
Warrington WA3 6YN
T: 01925 282 940
E: Thecentre@birchwoodpark.co.uk
Free car parking is available to delegates behind the conference centre

Directions at:
http://www.meetingsatbirchwood.co.uk/contact_details.aspx  or
http://www.mepc.com/birchwoodpark/Location/Howtofindus.aspx

Accommodation:
There is a hotel on site: http://www.encorewarrington.co.uk/

A One Day Symposium organised by the Corrosion Engineering Division of the Institute of Corrosion

Institute of Corrosion’s Corrosion Engineering Division
SYMPOSIUM ON ‘CORROSION MONITORING’
Birchwood Park, Warrington

This one day meeting will be the third in a series of recent working days of the Institute of Corrosion’s Corrosion Engineering Division (previous meetings were held at Birmingham and Buxton).  The meeting will be held at The Centre, Birchwood Park, near Warrington.  The meeting will start with two plenary lectures on aspects of corrosion monitoring, as shown in the programme below.  This will be followed by meetings of the CED working groups (see overleaf for a list of the working groups) combined with a short tour of Serco’s corrosion and inspection laboratories in nearby Walton House, in small groups.

Agendas for the working group meetings will be published separately in advance on the CED web site.  These meetings will include separate topical presentations arranged by the chairs of the individual working groups.  There will also be time for topical discussions and formulation of future activities of the groups.  The meeting will close with a final plenary lecture on another aspect of corrosion monitoring.  This working day will be a good opportunity to network with other corrosion professionals from different industry sectors.  For information on becoming involved with CED working parties please see the CED web site or contact the Chair of CED, Nick Smart (nick.smart@serco.com). 

For registration to attend the meeting, please download the registration form below and return it to ICorr Head Office.

Registration form download

Provisional Programme

09.15-10.00    Registration and coffee    
10.00-10.15    Welcome and Introduction - Nick Smart, Serco
10.15-10.45    Corrosion Monitoring - Fact or Fiction? - Colin Britton, consultant
10.45-11.15    Corrosion Monitoring in the Oil and Gas Industry - Gareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory
11.15-11.30    Coffee   
11.30-12.30    Working Group Meetings / Tour of Serco laboratories   
12.30-13.30    Lunch   
13.30-15.00    Working Group meetings / Tour of Serco laboratories   
15.00-15.15    Tea   
15.15-15.45    Monitoring of Anti-Corrosive Coatings using Electrochemical Techniques - Douglas Mills, University of Northampton
15.45-16.00    Closing discussion - Paul Lambert, Mott MacDonald, Icorr president

CED Webgroups

The Corrosion Engineering Division is currently using EGroups to facilitate discussion within the Corrosion Engineering Division working
groups.  In order to join please click on the link below to go to the relevant Group webpage.

Instructions for Joining webgroups:
click on the blue box on the top right corner which says "Join this
Group!" . Your request will be processed within a few days.  When using
the EGroups please note that for security reasons you can only using the email address you give in your Joining request. You can however contact the Moderator CED_Working_Group@yahoogroups.com and ask for additional email addresses to be added.

Corrosion Monitoring:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CED_Corrosion_Monitoring/

Nuclear:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CED_Working_Group_Nuclear/

Coatings:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CED_Working_Group_Coatings/

Oilfield Chemicals:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group CED_Working_Group_Oilfield_Chemicals/

Cathodic Protection:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CED_Working_Group_Cathodic_Protection/

Water Treatment:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CED_Working_Group_Water_Treatment/

Corrosion in Concrete:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CED_Working_Group_Corrosion_In_Concrete/