ABRAFATI is the most important event of its kind in Latin America. Combining the International Coatings Congress, and the International Exhibition of Coatings Industry Suppliers, it has been around since 1989 and has gained recognition for the quality of its programme and for bringing together thousands of business people and industry-leading companies, and having positive effects on the industry in Brazil and Latin America over time, in terms of both business and technological development.
The CEOCOR congress will be held this year in Bratislava, Slovakia, from May 30th to June 2nd. This is the first live congress after three years of restraint due to covid, and will allow the crucial direct and open personal exchange in the technical Work Groups and open conference sessions, between established experts and young engineers.
The programme this year covers relevant aspects related to AC as well as DC interference and mitigation strategies, coatings, shielding conditions, MIC, and new integrity assessment technologies along with reports of real-world field experience. The Keynote lecture is “Shining Light on Localised Corrosion”, by Professor Alison Davenport, who has been a leading researcher on passivity and the processes related to pitting corrosion for many years. She was recently awarded our prestigious U R Evans award at a meeting in Birmingham in February this year.
As usual the congress will feature a dinner and a cocktail party. There will also be an accompanying person’s programme. Full details, and a registration form, can be found on the congress website, www.ceocor2023.com
The following documents have obtained substantial support during the past two months, and have been submitted to the ISO member bodies for voting, or formal approval.
ISO/FDIS 4624 Paints and varnishes — Pull-off test for adhesion (Revision of 2016 standard) ISO/DIS 3549 Zinc dust pigments for paints —Specifications and test methods ISO/DIS 14919 Thermal spraying — Wires, rods and cords for flame and arc spraying — Classification — Technical supply conditions (Revision of 2015 standard) ISO/DTS 16774-2,3,4 Test methods for repair materials for water-leakage cracks in underground concrete structures — Part 2: Test method for chemical resistance, Part 3: Test method for water (wash out) resistance, Part 4: Test method for adhesion on wet concrete surface (Revision of 2016 standards) ISO/FDIS 24131-1,2 Internal protection by polymeric lining for ductile iron pipes — Requirements and test methods — Part 1: Polyurethane lining, Part 2: epoxy lining ISO/DIS 24489 Non-destructive testing — Acoustic emission testing — Detection of corrosion at atmospheric and low-pressure metallic storage tank floors
New International standards published in the past two months.
ISO 1518-1:2023 Paints and varnishes — Determination of scratch resistance — Part 1: Constant loading method
ISO 4212:2023 Corrosion of metals and alloys — Method of oxalic acid etching test for intergranular corrosion of austenitic stainless steel
ISO 4618:2023 Paints and varnishes — Vocabulary
ISO 4905:2023 Corrosion of metals and alloys — Electrochemical test methods for high-temperature corrosion testing of metallic materials in molten salts
ISO 7142:2023 Binders for paints and varnishes — Epoxy resins — General methods of test
ISO 7784-1,2:2023 Paints and varnishes — Determination of resistance to abrasion — Part 1: Method with abrasive-paper covered wheels and rotating test specimen, Part 2: Method with abrasive rubber wheels and rotating test specimen
ISO/TS 19392-6:2023 Paints and varnishes — Coating systems for wind-turbine rotor blades — Part 6: Determination and evaluation of ice adhesion using centrifuge
ISO 24647:2023 Non-destructive testing — Robotic ultrasonic test systems — General requirements
Kawasaki Successfully Completes Joint
Offshore Verification Test with TotalEnergies
for Measurement of Electrical Potential of Subsea Pipelines Using an AUV
According to Kawasaki, the AUV is the world’s first with a robot arm for subsea pipeline inspections. The development was carried out in response to the growing demand for subsea pipeline maintenance in offshore oil and gas fields. The vehicle is named SPICE, or Subsea Precise Inspector with Close Eyes.
Overall, SPICE has a length of approximately 5.6 metres, a width of 1.4 metres and a height of 1.1. metres. In the air, it weighs approximately 2,500 kilograms, and it can reach a maximum depth of 3,000 metres at a max speed of 4 knots. SPICE features a main propulsion propeller, two side thrusters and two vertical thrusters. It uses an inertial navigation system and sonar for its navigation equipment, as well as ballast release equipment and an iridium beacon for safety.
A 2020 verification test reportedly achieved stable pipe-tracking performance, demonstrating high capability as a platform for close-range subsea pipeline inspections. This was conducted under the “Joint Technological Development Support Program for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Fields” of DeepStar, and The Nippon Foundation Ocean Innovation Consortium.
Afterwards, Kawasaki began a joint research project with TotalEnergies to integrate the energy company’s electrical potential measurement technology Light Touch Cathodic Protection (LTCP) with SPICE. This was anticipated to make the AUV capable of measuring the electrical potential gradient of a pipeline allowing the detection of potential coating defects.
After more detailed design and modifications of SPICE in order to incorporate TotalEnergies’ LTCP, between October 2020 and February 2021, the most recent verification test off Awaji Island (Japan) ran from Aug. 30, 2022 to Sept. 2, 2022, and according to the company, resulted in the successful measurement by LTCP integrated with SPICE of the electrical potential of subsea pipelines. For the offshore test, simulated pipes and a corrosion protection system were placed on the seabed under the supervision of TotalEnergies. Using the time-tested, pipe-tracking capability and precise autonomous control of the robot arm, SPICE then successfully performed measurements of electrical potential using the robot arm with its newly integrated measurement device to check the pipelines’ state of protection against corrosion inferred by the measurement of the
electrical potential.
The Engineering Council has announced the appointment of Prof John Chudley CEng FIMarEST to the position of Chair of the Engineering Council’s Board of Trustees. John will take up the role in June 2023 at the Engineering Council’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), at which Professor Chris Atkin CEng FRAeS FREng formally completes his term as Chair.
John has served on the Engineering Council’s Board of Trustees since 2017 and chairs the Registration Standards Committee. He was appointed as Vice-Chair of the Engineering Council in 2021, including supporting the implementation of the Engineering Council’s 2025 Strategy. He has also worked with the Civil Service, including serving as Director of the Learning and Skills Council and the National Apprenticeship Service, where he was instrumental in the development of Higher Apprenticeships and Degree Apprenticeships.
The following documents have obtained substantial support
during the past two months, and have been submitted to the ISO member bodies for voting, or formal approval.
ISO/FDIS 1518-1 Paints and varnishes — Determination of scratch resistance — Part 1: Constant-loading method (Revision of 2019 standard)
ISO/DIS 3882 Metallic and other inorganic coatings — Review of methods of measurement of thickness (Revision of ISO 2003 standard)
ISO/FDIS 4212 Corrosion of Metals and Alloys— Method of oxalic acid etching test for intergranular corrosion of austenitic stainless steel
ISO/DIS 19735 Corrosion of metals and alloys — Corrosivity of atmospheres —Mapping areas of increased risk of corrosion
New International standards published in the past two months.
ISO 1522:2022 Paints and varnishes — Pendulum damping test
ISO 3079:2022 Two-electrode method using acetic acid to measure pitting potential of aluminium and aluminium alloys in chloride solutions
ISO 4628-5:2022 Paints and varnishes — Evaluation of quantity and size of defects, and of intensity of uniform changes in appearance — Part 5: Assessment of degree of flaking
ISO 9227:2022 Corrosion tests in artificial atmospheres— Salt spray tests
ISO 10062:2022 Corrosion tests in artificial atmosphere at very low concentrations of polluting gas(es)
ISO 11127-7:2022 Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related products — Test methods for non-metallic blast-cleaning abrasives — Part 7: Determination of water-soluble chlorides
ISO 23669:2022 Corrosion of metals and alloys — Requirements for localised corrosion and environmentally assisted cracking testing of additively manufactured metals and alloys
ISO 24239:2022 Corrosion control engineering life cycle in fossil fuel power plants — General requirements
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