Failure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure and how to prevent it from recurring. It is an important discipline in many branches of manufacturing industry, where it is a vital tool used in the development of new products and for the improvement of existing products.

CO2 corrosion pits are round based, deep with steep walls and sharp edges. The pitting is usually interconnected in long lines but will occasionally be singular and isolated. The pit bases will be filled with iron carbonate scale, a loosely adhering gray deposit generated from CO2.

Exfoliation is a specific form of corrosion that travels along grain boundaries parallel to the surface of the part causing lifting and flaking at the surface. The corrosion products expand between the uncorroded layers of metal to produce a look that resembles pages of a book. This exfoliation corrosion (EC) is associated with sheet, plate and extruded products and usually initiates at unpainted or unsealed edges or holes of susceptible metals.

In municipal wastewater treatment and collection systems, corrosion problems are quite different than those typically found in industrial systems. In the latter, corrosion results from direct aggression by the chemicals and their reaction products present in various discharge streams serviced by the system. Therefore, corrosion in those industrial systems usually occurs below the water line and tends to be predictable in nature. The most common corrosion encountered  in municipal systems, is above the water line and is typically microbiologically induced.

Corrosion is an electro-chemical process which transforms steel influenced by oxygen and water, in iron hydroxyde (rust). Corrosion is most often caused when steel is exposed to atmospheric conditions, such as salt, moisture, and oxygen. A protective coating to the steel required to prevent corrosion.

The corrosion of zinc in water is largely controlled by the impurities present in the water. Naturally occurring waters are seldom pure; even rainwater, which is distilled by nature, contains nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other gases, as well as entrained dust and smoke particles. Under the ground with eroded soil, water carries decaying vegetation, living microorganisms, dissolved salts, and colloidal and suspended matter. Water that seeps through soil contains dissolved CO2 and becomes acidic (H2 + CO2--> H2CO3). Groundwater also contains salts of calcium, magnesium, iron, and manganese. Seawater contains many of these salts in addition to its high NaCl content. All of these substances in natural waters affect the structure and composition of the resulting films and corrosion products on the surface, which in turn control the corrosion of zinc. In addition to these substances, such factors as pH, time of exposure, temperature, motion, and fluid agitation influence the aqueous corrosion of zinc.

Aluminium corrodes easily, especially when exposed to moist or acidic environments. The most frequent types of corrosion are Galvanic Corrosion, Pitting and Crevice Corrosion. Typical ways of preventing it from corrosion involve creating a protective barrier by coating its surface. Chromate is particularly effective for this purpose but the hexavalent chromium has carcinogenic properties and more inert coatings are sought. The self-assembled monolayer of an environmentally friendly hydrophobic organic material can provide initial protection but it has limited thermal stability and has molecule-sized defects. As an alternative to conventional materials, laurate- intercalated films of ZnAl layered double hydroxide (ZnAl-LDH-laurate) were fabricated by anion exchange of laurate with ZnAl-LDH-NO3- films on a porous anodic alumina/aluminum (PAO/Al) substrate. The presence of both microscale and nanoscale hierarchical structures makes the film superhydrophobic, and thus it has much better corrosion resistance than anodic PAO film alone or ZnAl-LDH-NO3- films.

Bio-electricity can be produced from biomass in a variety of ways. Some time microbes are capable to creat electricity while reducing or remediating organic wastes, and that these processes can be exploited using devices called Microbial Fuel Cells.

Like any other organic fluid, fuels and oils are susceptible to natural deterioration. Outbreaks of microbial contamination of fuels develop periodically and can often be traced to poor quality supplies coming on to the open market. Modern refining techniques, storage and transportation systems all contribute to contamination of the fuel.

This most common form of corrosion found on fiberglass boats and it is the least understood. Electrical currents are generated anytime there is a change in chemical composition. That's why powerful explosives can be made of such ordinary things like plastic. Crevice corrosion involves water, metals and crevices.

Washing the outside of your truck, you couldn't do everything to eliminate the damaging residue that accumulates during winter driving. You have to do rust repair or protection from it, in the correct way. You can rest assured that your truck will be repaired to a condition that you'll be satisfied with. If you live where it snows, follow the following steps to get the salt out and help protect your auto from rust and other types of winter related damage.

To our insulation industry, corrosion under insulation is a financial burden. Millions of dollars are spent annually to remediate, replace, and re-insulate corroded systems. To compound these costs, plant shut-downs to repair and remediate far out-cost the actual remediation costs.

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a colorless and rotten-egg odoured gas. Some people can smell H2S at very low levels (as 0.5 ppb in air). Most H2S in the air comes from natural sources. It is produced when bacteria break down plant and animal material, often in stagnant waters with low oxygen content such as bogs and swamps.

O₂ dissolved in water is one of the primary causes of corrosion in the oil field. When O₂ is present, the most common types of corrosion include pitting corrosion and uniform corrosion occurs. Crevice corrosion and pitting corrosion are related because they both require stagnant water, chloride, and oO₂ or CO₂. The mechanism of corrosion is very similar for both. O₂ is a strongly reacts with metal. The maximum amount of O₂ in water is only 8 ppm, so the mass transport of oxygen is the rate limiting step in oxygenated non-acidic environments.