Corrosion Short Courses: Marine Corrosion - Causes & Prevention, presented by NACE certified Corrosion Specialist , WebCorr Corrosion Consulting Services.

Marine Corrosion: Causes and Prevention

Course Overview

This corrosion course aims to provide the participants with a thorough understanding of the causes of corrosion in the marine environments and the technical know-how of corrosion control and prevention. Upon completion of this short course the participants will be able to identify different forms of corrosion, analyze the root causes of corrosion failures, select appropriate materials for applications in the marine environments, specify and apply proper protection methods against marine corrosion.

This corrosion short course is available for in-house training, online and distance learning worldwide. It can also be customized to meet the specific needs of your organization.

Course Outline

1. Corrosion and the Marine Environment
1.1 Classification of Corrosion and the Marine Environments
1.2 Corrosion: its economic, social, environmental and political Impact

2. Marine Corrosion: Terminology & Convention
    2.1 Effect of moisture and oxygen
    2.2 pH and potential-pH diagram (Pourbaix diagram)
    2.3 Effect of chloride
    2.4 Conductivity, anode, cathode, galvanic cell, corrosion cells, aeration, passivity, etc.

3. Why Do Metals Corrode
     3.1 Thermodynamic aspects of corrosion
     3.2 The effect of environment
     3.3 The driving force of corrosion

4. How corrosion occurs in the marine environments
    4.1 The reaction of a metal with electrolyte
    4.2 The electrochemical nature of corrosion
          4.2.1 the reaction of a metal with its environment
          4.2.2 the mixed potential theory
          4.2.3 polarization and corrosion rate
          4.2.4 passivation and its breakdown
    4.3 The characteristics of marine environments
          4.3.1 corrosivity of seawater
          4.3.2 corrosivity of marine atmospheres
    4.4 Factors affecting marine corrosion
          4.4.1 salinity and chlorinity
          4.4.2 temperature, dissolved gases, velocity, pH, pollutants, biological organisms
          4.4.3 relative humidity, airborne contaminants etc.
    4.5 Common forms of marine corrosion
          4.5.1   uniform corrosion
          4.5.2   galvanic corrosion
          4.5.3   dealloying
          4.5.4   crevice corrosion
          4.5.5   pitting corrosion
          4.5.6   intergranular corrosion and weld decay
          4.5.7   exfoliation
          4.5.8   stress corrosion cracking
          4.5.9   hydrogen related damages
          4.5.10 erosion corrosion and cavitation damage
          4.5.11 microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC)
          4.5.12 stray current corrosion
          4.5.13 biofouling
    4.6 Corrosion resistance of steels and alloys in the marine environments

5. How to control and prevent corrosion
    5.1 Materials selection for corrosion prevention
    5.2 Design against corrosion
    5.3 Theory and practice of cathodic protection
    5.4 Theory and practice of corrosion inhibitors
    5.5 Theory and practice of metallic coatings
          5.5.1 thermal spray, metallization
          5.5.2 hot-dip galvazing
          5.5.3 conversion coatings (anodizing, chromating and phosphating)
          5.5.4 electroplating, electroless plating, immersion plating.
    5.6 Theory and practice of organic coatings
          5.6.1 composition and characteristics of paints
          5.6.2 types of paints
          5.6.3 protective coatings for marine applications
          5.6.4 paint failures
          5.6.5 environment-friendly anti-fouling paints ("green" coatings)
          5.6.6 coatings and cathodic protection for marine structures
    5.7 Theory and practice of plastic coatings
    5.8 Theory and practice of concrete coatings

6. Corrosion Testing and Monitoring

Who Should Attend This Corrosion Course

Corrosion practitioners, designers, architects, technical managers, inspection and maintenance engineers, quality control personnel, owners and operators of marine structures, vessels and facilities, and those involved in failure analysis.

Successful completion of this corrosion course helps participants prepare for their NACE certification examinations at the Corrosion Technician, Corrosion Technologist and Senior Corrosion Technologist levels.

Registration for This Corrosion Course

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In-House Training Corrosion Courses and On-Site Corrosion Courses

If you are concerned with corrosion in your company, in-house training or on-site training is a great solution to train a group of employees from design, production, operation, quality assurance, inspection and maintenance, and technical sales and support on corrosion control and corrosion prevention technology. The contents of all our corrosion courses can be customized to fit your organization's needs.

There is no limit to the number of participants required for in-house training corrosion courses. We conduct the in-house training corrosion course at your company's premises worldwide, and at a time convenient to your company.

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Corrosion Course-On-Demand

All our publicly scheduled corrosion short courses are conducted once a year. However, you do not need to wait for one year if you have missed any of the publicly scheduled corrosion courses as we have this unique corrosion course-on-demand scheme: we will conduct the course just for you (on an one-on-one basis) or for a small group from your company at a time and in a location convenient to you. This option costs significantly less than a full-scale in-house or on-site corrosion training program.

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Online and Distance Learning Corrosion Courses

All our corrosion short courses are available for online or offline distance learning. You can start an online corrosion course at any time and learn at your own comfortable pace and schedule, whenever and wherever you are. You have around-the-clock access to the interactive and media-rich course materials, virtual labs, course instructions and course assessments. Discussions and questions related to the corrosion courses are posted on the website or exchanged through email for a period up to 3 months. Video conferencing or instant messaging can also be arranged for discussions of course topics. For those who do not have ready access to internet, we can send you our online course materials on a CD-ROM, or DVD, or USB flash drive for offline distance learning.

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PowerPoint Slides and Test Banks for Trainers, Instructors, Tutors, University Lecturers and Professors

If you are involved in teaching or training, you may wish to purchase a complete set of the trainer's package for this training course. The trainer's package comes complete with ready-to-use PowerPoint slides (fully editable) and test bank (with answer keys). These ready-to-use PowerPoint slides contain high quality color photographs, illustrations, animations, audio and video clips. The test bank contains questions in four categories: (1) true or false, (2) multiple choice, (3) calculation, and (4) reasoning and open-ended discussions. The trainer's package is suitable for in-house training and university teaching. This is exactly the same package that WebCorr uses to deliver our current training course.

The one-time lump sum fee allows your organization to use the training package and also modify it. For example, your organization may modify the course contents and re-name/re-brand the course under your organization’s name. WebCorr only retains the copyright of the original PowerPoint slides and test bank.

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