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Welcome to the November/December issue of the magazine. As 2023 comes to an end, I would like to express my gratitude to Stephen, Brian, the Square One team, the ICorr team, and all the authors who have contributed to the Corrosion Management Magazine. The success of Corrosion Management Magazine is ensured by our joint, committed efforts. I wish a happy and festive Christmas to every reader.
This issue is dedicated to the theme “Sustainable Energy”. The first technical article “How do you take sustainability into account during design?” is written by Birit Buhr. She has proposed that environmental impact be considered during the design process by including life cycle analysis (LCA) to minimise environmental impact over the lifetime of a structure. Dr Patricia Conder has authored the second technical article titled “Non-Destructive Challenges in the Net Zero World”. Five facets of inspection- degradation, physics of inspection, Inspection deployment, planning and data analytics are described to tackle key Net Zero NDT challenges by Dr. Conder. The third technical article, entitled “An Examination of Localised Internal Corrosion Failure Mechanisms for a Nutshell Filter Vessel,” is written by Riky Bernardo. Dr. Douglas Mills has also contributed an article for the Fellow’s Corner titled “Archaeological Corrosion and Conservation,” which is primarily historical and based on previously published work.
To help you learn more about the columnist, we have included a “Meet the Author” section with every article.
We welcome industry news, technical articles, and articles for fellow’s corner from you in whichever part of the world you are based. Your suggestions and feedback are very important for ensuring that we deliver magazine content that will engage our valued members. Please send all your content for consideration.
editor@icorr.org
Dr Shagufta Khan, FICorr
Consulting Editor
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Dear Members,
Welcome to our final 2023 edition of Corrosion Management. I do hope you all have a well-earned rest when it comes and ready for the busy new ICorr year ahead.
With many thanks to all those who have supported our events in any way during the past year. So many of you l know, work really hard behind the scenes preparing our educational and training activities, writing articles for our magazine and social media postings, encouraging new members, raising new sponsorships, and generally helping to grow the institution.
We are a unique and very personal organisation that aims to support industry and corrosion professionals towards achieving the best they can in corrosion prevention and corrosion career development.
Our institute has seen many changes this year, with accelerated training provision, new courses being offered and developed, and most importantly, a progressive return to our in-person activities. We shall be careful, however, to retain some hybrid and online event options to continue to engage with our increasing overseas and student membership.
The final weekly Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection UK Government update was published on March 24, 2023, almost 3 years exactly after the pandemic was officially announced. It is fair to say that since then, our ‘Face to Face’ calendar has been pretty much in full swing, with many branch-led events and also our key CED/YICorr and CSD conferences/YEP launches in London and Bristol, respectively, along with our most recent AGM and Science Council events in Birmingham.
October 30, 2023, was a very significant milestone in the ICorr calendar with our three-yearly HQ audit for ISO 9001 recertification, for which we are indebted to HQ Staff – Becky Hurst and Trish Bridge, Chris Williams our QMS Lead, Bill Hedges who instigated our new Document SharePoint and for Auditing Guidance to Kevin Harold, our CORREX (ICATS Training Arm) Managing Director.
This year, we are sadly saying goodbye from the ICorr Council to David Harvey, our Engineering Council Lead/CEng Direct Champion for so many years, and Anthony Collins, our Honorary Treasurer for nearly 30 years. It is rare to see such long and generous service in the voluntary sector, and we wish them both well as they enjoy a well-earned rest with their families.
We welcomed into our fold, of course, Dr. Shagufta Khan as our new Corrosion Management Editor and George Winning our new Treasurer and wish them continued success in their respective roles.
You will see Dr. Yunnan Gao, our Vice President, working increasing with me over the coming 12 months in support of Events and for
taking forward our development plans for the Institute. Also of course, Anthony Setiadi, who will be our new Engineering Council Lead going forward.
Wishing you all every success in all you do in 2024.
With my best regards,
Stephen Tate, President: Institute of Corrosion
president@icorr.org
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CORREX is pleased to announce its new 3-day foundation course.
As the name suggests duration of this course is 3 days. The course has information for a new starter, experienced operative with limited experience or no desire to blast and spray and requires an ICATS card.
The foundation course does not contain any specialist blast and spray information, but concentrates on Health and Safety, tools and tool usage, preparation standards and principles, paint adhesion and application, paint faults and much more.
This course has been taken on by Hinkley C Nuclear Power Plant (EDF) and will be delivered by Cryogen (Scunthorpe). This course will be delivered to hundreds of new starters ahead of working at Hinkley C.
CORREX and Cryogen are proud to be part of this on-going ICATS training.
All enquiries to CORREX@icorr.org or kevin@paintel.co.uk
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The Institute is very pleased to announce the signing of a new 5 year agreement with the University of Manchester (UoM), to provide Student Bursaries to its Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Students studying Corrosion. This is fully in line with its Memorandum of Association – November 2020 – Section 3(b) that aims:
• To raise the standard of the scientific, technical and professional knowledge of persons engaged in or intending to be engaged in science, technology or engineering practise of corrosion and its control.
• To promote and carry out research and other scientific work in connection with science, technology or engineering practise of corrosion and corrosion control.
• To provide facilities for post-graduate courses and other studies related to the primary objects by means of research fellowships and bursaries for the remuneration, instruction and support of research graduates and students.
UoM and ICorr Relationship
The relationship between UoM and ICorr goes back several decades, with many former UoM and UMIST (Institute of Science and Technology) staff, students, and ICorr members now working in the Corrosion Industry and Academia.
The Institute has been working very closely over the past 12 months with the Academic and Administrative staff of UoM to develop the bursaries scheme. We have been hugely impressed with their commitment to the advancement of corrosion education and the dedication of its students, as witnessed first-hand at the 65th anniversary presentations of UoM corrosion teaching in April 23.
All presentations from their recent 65 year UoM Jubilee
Corrosion Symposium are now available on UoM YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/evhHQSds.
Details of New Scheme
This new UoM bursaries scheme was championed by Bill Hedges, who has worked closely with past ICorr President Stuart Lyon, and has the full support of ICorr Council. It will start in September 2023 and provide the following for the upcoming academic year.
Undergraduate Scholarships
• ICorr will provide 4x £2,000 bursaries for undergraduate (UG) students.
• The UG scholarships will be allocated in December 2023, which is when the final year students will choose the options for the second semester, (they can choose up to 3 Corrosion units).
Post Graduate Scholarships
• ICorr will also provide 2x £8,500 bursaries for MSc students.
• By awarding the scholarships from 2023-24 academic year, the expectation is that UoM will improve the conversion rate from MSc offers to the number of people that register on the Corrosion course.
All prospective UoM corrosion course students are required to complete a detailed questionnaire in support of their application for an ICorr-UoM scholarship.
The total annual bursary support by ICorr will be £25,000 per annum. Each year UoM will review the scholarship scheme and,
if necessary, change the number and value of each scholarship, in order to maximise the number of students who select Corrosion options going forward.
New UoM Corrosion Lead
Dr Beatriz Mingo, a Royal Academy of Engineering and Presidential Fellow has recently been appointed as the new UoM Corrosion subject lead.
Beatriz of the Henry Royce Institute graduated in Chemistry (2011), completed her Masters in Materials Science and Technology (2012), and defended her PhD thesis (2016) at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain), for which she received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. During her PhD, she studied different strategies to improve the corrosion resistance of light alloys.
In 2013 the British-Spanish Society granted her a scholarship to complete her academic training in cutting edge 3D characterisation techniques at The University of Manchester. She also carried out two research stays at the Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht (2015 and 2016) in the Corrosion and Surface Technology Group, where she learned the fundamentals of active protection, with the development of self-healing coatings based on layered double hydroxides formed on aluminium based composites.
In 2016, the European Federation of Corrosion awarded her the Eurocorr Young Scientist Grant, which is aimed at promoting knowledge exchange between young and international senior scientists. In 2017, she was awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, and in 2018, she obtained the Presidential Fellowship at The University of Manchester.
Beatriz Mingo is currently a Senior Lecturer and Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow at The University of Manchester and Henry Royce Institute. Her research focuses on the development of environmentally friendly smart surface treatments for corrosion protection and lifetime extension of engineering systems. She has published +35 research publications in the field of Corrosion Science and her work has been recognised internationally by the European Federation of Corrosion and the International Society of Electrochemistry, amongst others. Most recently she was awarded the 2022 RAEng Young Engineer of the Year, The University of Manchester Distinguished Achievement Medal – Researcher of the Year 2022 and the UCM Alumni Award, 2022”.
The new Home for Engineering and Materials boasts a range of teaching spaces, lecture theatres, multi-purpose study areas, social spaces, and very well-equipped research laboratories.
CAPTIONS:
New University of Manchester Buildings – Engineering Building A.
Dr Beatriz Mingo of the Henry Royce Institute Manchester.
New University of Manchester Laboratories.
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During June and July, the Institute was very pleased to welcome the following new Overseas and UK Student members, many of whom joined us from our North-East Branch Sustainability Event. We wish them all every success in their future careers and ICorr journeys.
Name/University
• Narenthira Prasath Dhandapan – Newcastle University – 16 June 2023
• Long Duong – Newcastle University – 16 June 2023
• Lilibeth Urdaneta – Newcastle University – 16 June 2023
• Mohammed Aleliw – Newcastle University – 16 June 2023
• Sahish Bhosle – Newcastle University 16 June 2023
• Alfie Davies-Varnier – Newcastle University – 16 June 2023
• Chirag Padmesh Kumar – Newcastle University – 16 June 2023
• Edwin Ramirez Teljeda – Newcastle University – 16 June 2023
• Al Salamah Salim – Newcastle University – 16 June 2023
• Srivatsava Podicheti – Institute of Aeronautical Engineering (IARE) – 17 June 2023
• Jack Fergus – Falmouth University – 19 June 2023
• Mohamed Ibrahim – Newcastle University 19 June 2023
• Abhijeet Kulkarni – Newcastle University – 19 June 2023
• Ashhab Mulla – Newcastle University – 19 June 2020
• Hannah Wright – Newcastle University – 20 June 2023
• Ragav Krishnakumar – Newcastle University – 20 June 2023
• Muhammed Mansaf Maheen – Newcastle University – 20 June 2023
• Nazia Farooqui – University of Edinburgh – 20 June 2023
• Raisa Kamila – Newcastle University – 21 June 2023
• Billington Harvey – Liverpool Moore’s University – 21 June 2023
• Tamsin Dobson – University of Bristol – 26 June 2023
• Christopher Hardman – University of Bristol – 26 June 2023
• Ali Haider – University of Punjab – 02 July 2023
• Ibrahim Alhajji – King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals – 03 July 2023
• Leandro Liveira – University of Sao Paulo – 03 July 2023
• Saif Ramy – University of Leeds – 11 July 2023
Our Student Bursaries Scheme with University of Manchester is now approved and will commence
this September
Saif Ramy, ICorr Internship Student
The Young ICorr Internship (Anne Neville Award) has also been sanctioned for support by ICorr Council at University of Leeds with additional funding kindly provided by LBBC Baskerville. The winning ICorr Student member Saif Ramy will commence his internship on 3rd July for 10 weeks. We offer our many congratulations to him and sincere thanks to Danny Burkle for arranging this and also to LBBC Baskerville for their support.
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Our Midland Branch is very active again under the new leadership of Bill Whittaker, with a full technical programme planned for the coming 2023–24 technical session. On September 14, there will be a branch meeting and visit to Manchester University Metallurgy and Corrosion group within the Department of Materials, for a tour of the brand new, state-of-the-art building. The new Home for Engineering and Materials boasts a range of teaching spaces, lecture theatres, multi-purpose study areas, social spaces, and fantastic laboratories. With a guide to the facilities from the students and corrosion teaching staff.
Event Schedule:
• Start at 3 pm: afternoon welcome refreshments.
• Lectures/talks from Midland visitors and from Manchester.
• Later, a move to the restaurant for chatting and finger food from 5:30 pm (soft and hot drinks).
• Tours in three groups of the Department of Materials, approx. 5–10 people per tour (20 minutes per tour),end 7pm.
Only 25 places available, please confirm attendance ASAP to Bill Whittaker at the midlandschair@icorr.org”
