Dear ICorr Member,
The Trustees and Council of the Institute would like to invite you all to the 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held on Wednesday 9th November 2022 at the Council Chambers, Birmingham
Town Hall, in conjunction with a half day Midlands Branch meeting, including technical presentations by corrosion experts from across Europe.
The Midlands Branch meeting, and the AGM will be an in-person event only.
11.00 -12.00 Arrive; registration and networking, tea and coffee served
12.00 -13.00 Lunch
13.00 -14.15 ICorr Award winners talks:
*Alison Davenport – Pitting: the delicate balance between dissolution and passivation.
*Chris Lynch – Cathodic Protective Standards Making
14.15 -14.30 Comfort break
14.30 – 16.30 Midlands Branch Symposium Speakers:
*Chris Googan – Why do Protective Coatings Fail?
*Simon Daly – Challenges for Selecting Coatings for the fixed and floating offshore wind industry.
*Malcolm Morris – Update on International Standards Activity Within the Protective Coatings Sector.
*Ken Lax – BS EN ISO 21857:2021 Prevention of corrosion on pipeline systems influenced by stray currents.
16.30 -17.00 Comfort break tea coffee
17.00 -17.45 ICorr AGM
Institute of Corrosion Annual General Meeting 2022
Venue: Council Chamber, Birmingham Town Hall. Time: 17.00 – 17.45 Agenda. 1. Apologies for Absence. 2. Minutes of the Previous AGM (2021). 3. President’s Report. 4. Treasurer ’s Report. 5. Elections of Trustees and Council Members. 6. Any Other Business.
The Trustees and members of Council will be available before the meeting to answer any questions you may have regarding the Institute and its future.
Again, as in the case of 2021, the Institute’s accounts, and the minutes for the 2021 AGM, will be available via the ICorr website (www.icorr.org). Please examine them and the website in general as we would appreciate your feedback. The website will continue to be influential in increasing the Professional Membership and for informing non-members about ICorr, as well as a major means of communication with membership.
Please confirm attendance (for lunch numbers) or apology for absence by e-mail to admin@icorr.org
Members should check the ICorr website for any update to the arrangements before travelling.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Jane Lomas, Institute of Corrosion Honorary Secretary
Welcome to the autumn issue of your magazine, and it is another bumper issue. There is an extensive Institute News section, with information on the upcoming AGM and details of a new training course. There are the usual Fellow’s Corner and Ask the Expert columns, but slightly shorter than normal to make way for the three technical articles. These cover improving the life of anodes, bottom plate corrosion of above ground storage tanks, and a very interesting look at the effect of climate change on carrion from Chris Atkins.
As you will have seen from the “President Write” column above, I have decided to stand down as editor, so this should be my penultimate issue. After being editor for 6 years, and working in the industry for more than 50 years, it’s time for me to relax and enjoy retirement.
It has been a pleasure to produce the magazine, and I hope you have enjoyed reading it.
Brian Goldie, Consulting Editor
Email: brianpce@aol.com
How quickly two years flies by! This is my penultimate article before handing over the Presidency of ICorr into the very capable hands Stephen Tate at our AGM on 9th November. Details of the AGM can be found in this issue and I hope you can join us.
As we approach the AGM two very dedicated and long serving members of our council have decided to stand down from their roles:
• Tony Collins has been our treasurer for many years and overseen our turn round to the very healthy financial situation we find ourselves in today. Tony has provided myself, many past presidents, the Trustees and Council with clear financial reporting and wise coaching for which I am very grateful.
• Brian Goldie is the editor of this magazine and under his leadership we have seen the magazine become increasingly popular by providing a great balance of technical topics, Industry and ICorr branch news. He has introduced several new themes such as “Fellows Corner” where experts provide an overview of their specialist technical areas.
• Sarah Vasey who is a recent past president has also unfortunately indicated her need to step down from Council at this time, due to her company commitments overseas in Cleveland, Ohio.
I want to thank Tony, Brian, and Sarah for their wonderful contributions over many years and for being such professional
and easy people to work with. We will miss you all.
Of course, this means we have two vacancies so if anyone is interested in either the Treasurer or Magazine Editor roles,
please let me know.
As I noted in the last issue our office is now being run by Becky and Trish. I’d like to thank them both for organising a very successful, two-day office clean up with the outstanding support of Kevin Harold and Rob Hurley. Over the years we had collected a lot of “stuff” which took a lot of space. One skip later and we now have a a clutter free store room. Kevin and Rob also put up our new ICorr office signs which had been delayed due to Covid.
A highlight for me was attending the Aberdeen Annual Corrosion Forum on 30th August. You can see more details in this magazine and I want to thank the Aberdeen team for planning an excellent event which was well attended. Despite being held in the oil and gas capital of the world it was refreshing to see a focus on all energy sources. I also had the pleasure of joining the Aberdeen branch committee for dinner that evening and hearing many of the ideas they have for the future.
Our new microbiologically Influenced corrosion (MIC) training course is now finished and we have received lots of interest in attending – look out for dates in the near future. More details are in this issue.
Until next time. Bill Hedges, Institute of Corrosion President
Email: president@icorr.org
The Institute of Corrosion would like to express their condolences to Family, friends and colleagues around the world of Lee Wilson FICorr who sadly passed away this week.
Lee was a professional in his field of corrosion control, Fellow of the Institute of Corrosion, and more recently regenerated the North East Branch of ICorr to which he chaired.
His knowledge, pro-active approach to problem solving, and general interaction with the corrosion world will be very much missed. “
John Scully was born in Fulham (London, United Kingdom) to Anne and Christopher Scully, a nurse and carpenter, respectively. Both were of Irish Catholic descent. They encouraged John to look for opportunities further afield. After school, he joined the army for two years’ National Service, following which he was awarded a scholarship to Downing College, Cambridge. During his six years in Cambridge (1955-1961), he gained a degree in Metallurgy and a Ph.D. in corrosion, the latter mentored by Dr T P Hoar. After defending his PhD, he worked for two years at the Olin Mathieson Corporation in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He then returned to the UK to join the academic staff of the University of Leeds as a Lecturer in Metallurgy. He spent the remainder of his life based in Leeds.
Coming from a working class background, John was the only person from his school to receive a university education. That he then went on to become a university lecturer and an internationally recognised research scientist was a huge accomplishment.
While at Cambridge, John married Celia (née Shopland), a graduate in Physics from the University of Oxford and longstanding friend. The two met in London while members of the Labour Party in Fulham, which in those days was a working class part of London. Their marriage lasted more than 60 happy years. Celia passed away
in 2019.
John’s early years were spent in Fulham during and after the Second World War. He credits the League of Youth (the youth organisation of the British Labour Party) for providing the major opportunities and encouragement for intellectual growth during his teenage years. As a teenager, he escaped from the influence of the Catholic Church into full-blooded atheism—a world view from which he never wavered. As he approached the end of his school years, he considered spending the next years of his life working for the Labour Party, instead of attending university. An influential older mentor at the League of Youth insisted that a person of John’s talents must attend university. Fortunately, John followed that advice. He remained a member of the Labour Party all his life.
John’s field of expertise in corrosion gained him global recognition. His work on corrosion is familiar to generations of metallurgists and corrosion technologists worldwide, thanks to his exceptional research efforts and supervisory role educating many undergraduate and postgraduate students. His scientific contributions have been captured by numerous technical articles and educational books, including The Fundamentals of Corrosion, The Theory of Stress Corrosion Cracking and Corrosion: Aqueous Processes and Passive Films. His publications are highly cited, influential as educational texts and still used by many practicing corrosion engineers. He was appointed Editor in Chief of Corrosion Science Journal, a leading publication of the field. He held this role successfully and effectively for many years.
In 1989, John Scully was presented with the U.R. Evans Award from the UK Institute of Corrosion – the pinnacle of accolades in corrosion, made for outstanding international achievements in pure or applied corrosion science, and for service to the corrosion community worldwide.
John had a lifelong devotion to literature, which began early in his life and flourished throughout his later years. He also had an avid lifelong interest in theatre and opera. After retiring from academic life in 2001, John turned his talent to writing. He wrote an autobiographical memoir, “Memories from Fulham”, and several novels, which were published privately. The memoir evokes his youth in Fulham and the influences that shaped his world view. Reflecting on his time in Fulham, he said: “you can take a boy out of Fulham but you cannot take Fulham out of a boy”. The book reflects his passionate belief in democracy, social change and the potential of politics to improve people’s lives.
John’s easy manner and love of life endeared him to the whole of his academic family, one of which was myself during the 1970s. He was an exceptional person, kind, considerate, always generous with his time and very willing to respond to anyone who asked. His hospitable nature went a long way as he and Celia entertained his PhD students who came from far afield, to summer garden parties with croquet and Christmas dinners at their beautiful house in Bramhope near Leeds.
He will be truly missed by all who knew him and also by the broader community for his technical knowledge that in some areas was unique.
I would like to thank John’s sons, Christopher and Ralph, who have helped me with some of the details of John’s life described here.
The branch held its AGM on 29th June at Heyrose Golf Club, Knutsford, Cheshire. Representatives from Taziker, Wood Group, Analysis Scientific, Intertek and Mott MacDonald, were in attendance at the AGM, and began the process of planning events for the Autumn programme, and beyond.
At the golf day, despite the odd shower (not a description of anyone playing), the players enjoyed the challenge of Heyrose GC, and some (occasional) fine shots peppered the pins.
Anyone wishing to become involved with the NW Branch or the committee should contact greg.brown@mottmac.com, or brenda.peters@analysis-scientific.co.uk
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