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ISO
The following documents have obtained substantial support within the appropriate ISO technical committees during the past two months and have been submitted to the ISO member bodies for voting, or formal approval.
ISO/PRF 1460 Metallic coatings — Hot dip galvanized coatings on ferrous materials — Gravimetric determination of the mass per unit area (revision of 1992 standard)
ISO/DIS 7539-9 Corrosion of metals and alloys — Stress corrosion testing — Part 9: Preparation and use of pre-cracked specimens for tests under rising load or rising displacement (revision on 2003 standard)
ISO/PRF 11127-1 Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related products — Test methods for non-metallic blast-cleaning abrasives — Part 1: Sampling, Part 2: Determination of particle size distribution, Part 3: Determination of apparent density, Part 4: Assessment of hardness by a glass slide test, Part 5: Determination of moisture, Part 8: Field determination of water-soluble chlorides (revision of 2011 standards)
ISO/DIS 18797-2 Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries – External corrosion protection of risers by coatings and linings — Part 2: Maintenance and field repair coatings for riser pipes
ISO/FDIS 23449 Corrosion of metals and alloys — Multielectrode arrays for corrosion measurement
ISO/DIS 7539-9 Corrosion of metals and alloys — Stress corrosion testing — Part 9: Preparation and use of pre-cracked specimens for tests under rising load or rising displacement (revision of 2003 standard)
New international standards published during the past two months
ISO 23363:2020 Electrodeposited coatings and related finishes — Electroless Ni-P-ceramic composite coatings

CEN
Standards published within last two months.
EN ISO 8502-9:2020 Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related products – Tests for the assessment of surface cleanliness – Part 9: Field method for the conductometric determination of water-soluble salts
This document specifies a field method for the assessment of the surface density of various water-soluble salts on steel surfaces, before and/or after surface preparation, by conductometric determination. The individual surface densities of the salt cannot be determined by this method, as it assesses only contaminants that form an electrolyte (ions) when in contact with water
EN ISO 11463:2020 Corrosion of metals and alloys – Guidelines for the evaluation of pitting corrosion
This document gives guidelines for the selection of procedures that can be used in the identification and examination of corrosion pits and in the evaluation of pitting corrosion and pit growth rate.

The review was published in Progress in Organic Coatings, Volume 146, September 2020.

Webinar, Corrosion Testing Innovation

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The 3rd webinar in the Corrosion Testing in Extreme Environments series from LBBC Baskerville, will be held on 26 November 2020, at 13.00, and cover Corrosion Testing Innovation – The past, present and future.

Autoclave corrosion tests are a convenient way of laboratory simulation of many service environments by recreating the high temperatures and high pressures commonly occurring in industrial processes. However, there are numerous shortcomings, e.g. the conditions in the autoclave vary from real life because the fluid is not continually replenished, and the conditions are difficult to measure/monitor under the extreme conditions.

Discussions with the University of Leeds identified a specific opportunity to develop an innovative range of high pressure autoclave systems incorporating continuous, real-time monitoring of the corrosion process being investigated within the vessel. This will be of interest to a number of industries for lab investigations of corrosion of materials exposed to high temperatures and pressures.

In this webinar, Dr Danny Burkle and Dr Richard Barker will enlarge on their discussions from previous webinars and discuss the key challenges in harsh operating environments, current and future needs in tools, technologies and methods, and how new products can be developed to enable innovation and improve testing programmes.

The topics to be covered include, corrosion testing methods, limitations of current corrosion testing methods, and corrosion testing innovation: linking lab to field.
For more information contact, d.burkle@lbbcbaskerville.co.uk or k.oliver@lbbc.co.uk, and to register, go to https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fIT6kwfSR5-lJuAgbW-KVg

Vestas and Hempel enter into strategic partnership agreement

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According Hempel they have formed a new strategic partnership with Vestas, a leader in sustainable energy solutions, to cooperate around innovative solutions for surface protection of wind turbines. The joint Vestas and Hempel ambition is to reduce surface treatment costs and support sustainable coating solutions. At the same time, Hempel will continue to assist Vestas in remaining competitive throughout the entire process of becoming CO2 neutral by 2030.

Vestas and Hempel will take the first step in the partnership at the Vestas wind tower manufacturing plant in Colorado, USA, where they will closely collaborate on bringing down costs and exploring new digital solutions to improve quality control and the CO2 footprint of the production of wind turbines. Initial calculations demonstrate that changing the processes surrounding the surface treatment application will potentially generate a 60 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions equal to 1,100 tonnes CO2 per year.

Study Looks at Concrete in Nuclear Plants

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A new European Commission-supported project to advance the assessment of safety performance of critical concrete infrastructure in nuclear power plants began in September and runs until Aug. 31, 2024. According to Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre, the project aims to clarify, enhance and unify methods of structural integrity assessment in support of long-term operation.

The project involves a consortium of 10 European companies and research partners, as well as one international partner, including CEA (France), CTU (Czech Republic), CVR (Czech Republic), EDF (France), ENERGORISK (Ukraine), ENGIE LAB (Belgium), IRSN (France), SCK•CEN (Belgium), ZAG (Slovenia) and the U.S.’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The project named ACES, with a budget of $6 million, aims to have an impact on operations of Gen II and III nuclear power plants, as well as on the design of next-generation plants. It is intended to improve the understanding of ageing and deterioration of concrete, and will demonstrate and quantify inherent safety margins introduced by the conservative approaches used during design and defined by codes and standards employed throughout the life of the plant, according to VTT.

ACES hopes to give operators and regulators an improved understanding of the concrete, including:

  • A critical review of aging management practice across EU NPP 
 focusing on deterioration and aging mechanisms of reinforced 
 concrete, linked to decision-based assessment criteria
    Improved understanding of corrosion phenomena focusing 
 on embedded liners, predicting the occurrence of corrosion 
 and developing an innovative inspection tool for early detection 
 of corrosion
    Improved assessment of the effects of prolonged irradiation of 
 the concrete biological shield using a holistic approach 
 combining operating conditions, materials degradation and 
 structural significance

Young Engineers’ Programme 2020 – 12th November

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Case Study Presentation – Update Bulletin 2

Introduction

This bulletin presents updating information regarding the case study presentation evening, Thursday 12th of November 2020.  for the benefit of all participants in the evening.

The format

The Young Engineers are currently working in 7 teams on the case study. On the evening of 12th November each team will be asked present their findings from the case study. The teams will need to demonstrate team work however the mechanism of delivery is up to each team and their mentors.

Each team will be held in the lobby and will be called forward to present one team at a time the remaining teams will remain in the lobby and will not be able to hear the preceding team’s presentation. Each presentation will start at the allocated time. The presentation is expected to last for 20 minutes. There is then five minutes for questions. The team will step down when the Chair closes that part of the session (at 25 minutes), that team can then remain in the meeting with video and audio muted to listen to all subsequent deliveries.

Following the completion of all presentations there will then be a break while the judges confer and decide on the winning team. The winning team will be announced at the end of the evening, congratulations and commiserations given by the Chair and the meeting will be closed.

Preparation for the meeting

Each team is requested to complete preparation of their presentation some days in advance.  Please send your presentation by either email or a file transfer service such as WeTransfer to david.mobbs@c-i-m.co.uk by midday on Wednesday 11th November. This is for security proposes in the event of an IT failure. Please note that all presentations are to be delivered in the manual mode, please do not use the automation feature in PowerPoint.

The meeting officials

Chair: Trevor Osborne
Timer:  Alan Denny
Q&A:  Anthony Setiadi

Timings

Registration opens at 4:30 p.m. and all participants should attempt to get online as close to 4:30 as possible. The timetable of the meeting is as follows (all p.m.): –

time Activity Note Presenter
4:30 Meeting opens online for registration N.A.
4:45 Welcome, introduction and roll call Trevor Osborne
5:00 Presentation Mentor: Andrew Sturgeon Team 1
5:30 Presentation Mentor: Chris Googan Team 2
6:00 Presentation Mentor: Charlie Barraclough Team 3
6:30 Presentation Mentor: Tasos Kostrivas Team 4
7:00 Presentation Mentor: Dave Shaw Team 5
7:30 Presentation Mentor: Rob Doggett Team 6
8:00 Presentation Mentor: John Davies Team 7
8:30- 8:50 Break Judges will be in session
8:50 Judging summary and award TBC
9:15 Meeting close

The platform and facilitation

For simplicity the platform used will be ‘Teams’ (we have decided against using ‘Teams Live’ due to lack of familiarity).

The main audience will be able to see the entire event.

Do you have any Questions on the event?

If you have questions on the event and the evening please send them, in the first event, to david.mobbs@c-i-m.co.uk and they will be answered by the organising team either by email or in a subsequent Bulletin.

Download Institute of Corrosion YEP Case Study: Onshore Titanium Pipe Corrosion Failure

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