Institute News
Welcome to this autumn edition of your magazine – I do hope you managed to enjoy the summer and got some vacation time.
Although the ICorr year runs from the 1st July to the 31st June each year it is at this time that our activities start to pick up again with branch meetings and other events. It’s exciting to see our Aberdeen and London branches re-starting in person meetings and exploring how we might be able to live-stream them as well for those who cannot attend. On the subject of branches, I’d like to thank everyone in the Northeast area who responded to our call for help with re-energising our branch there. We had numerous great offers and thanks to David Mobbs for coordinating the way forward – I look forward to attending one of the meetings.
On the 11th August we had our quarterly Council Meeting and I’m delighted to say our Institute remains in great shape. Our new cathodic protection courses are proving very popular and our new coatings courses are about to come on-stream.
With the easing of Covid restrictions I’ve been really pleased to attend two in-person events and meet some of our members. At the end of August I attended the opening of a new technology centre dedicated to pipeline pigging at Cokebusters in Chester, and in September I attended
the second day of the Corrosion Science Symposium at the University of Manchester. All the talks were excellent, and I was impressed by the progress being made in surface imaging at the nanoscale and the advances in modelling corrosion mechanisms at the atomic level. Whilst there, it was my privilege to give our UR Evans award in person to Professor Bob Cottis, University of Manchester for 2020 and to Professor Mary Ryan, Imperial College, London, for 2021. I’d like to thank Professor Stuart Lyon for organising a great event and you will be able to read more about the conference in the next edition.
Finally, I’d like to mention our approach to email communications with you. We work very hard to avoid sending you too many emails as we all understand the problem of email overload. Historically we have only sent you emails about events related to your branch activities as they were in-person events. However, since the arrival of Covid we have moved into the world of on-line presentations and live-streaming which means anyone can attend from anywhere in the world – albeit on UK time ! This has proved very popular and, as a result, we have agreed that if a meeting is exclusively an in-person meeting we will continue to send emails only to the relevant branch members. However, if it is an on-line meeting, we will send to all our membership as it may be of interest to a wider audience. We still believe this will be a relatively small number of emails and expect no more than a few each month.
As ever I’d love to hear from you on this or any ICorr topic you have thoughts on.
Until next time,
Bill Hedges, Institute of Corrosion President
Email: president@icorr.org
Industry News
ICorr is excited to announce that BP has been become the first organisation to sign up to the Institute’s newest grade of benefit-laden membership. ICorr’s Corporate Membership programme offers membership for all corporate employees across all of ICorr’s grades from Affiliate to Fellow.
The benefits of Corporate Membership are:
• Any number of employees can be included in the programme, which is costed based on the number of employees involved.
• Free admission for one employee to the annual Corrosion Science Symposium.
• A 10% discount for employees on all conferences and symposia.
• A free table for 10 people at the prestigious ICorr London Branch Christmas Luncheon, that in previous years welcomed guest speakers including former politician Ann Widdecombe and cricket legend Henry Blofeld.
• Free advertising in Corrosion Management magazine and on the Institute of Corrosion website.
• Access to ICorr’s career progression and competence programme.
• Guaranteed places on the extremely popular and always oversubscribed Young Engineer Programme, which takes place every two years.
“We are delighted to be the first Corporate Member of ICorr and have signed up ten of our UK based employees. We value our relationship with ICorr and the benefits this membership will bring us” – Dr Chris Williams, BP Senior Advisor for Corrosion Engineering.
ICorr are extremely grateful to BP for being the first to sign up to our Corporate Membership programme which is a watershed moment for this initiative. and which has been in planning for some time.
If you feel Corporate Membership is right for your company, please contact us at, admin@icorr.org
Latest News
Each year the Institute of Corrosion bestows a range of internationally-renowned awards in recognition of excellence in corrosion science and engineering, and to reward outstanding service to the Institute and the wider corrosion community. Many of these awards are open to nomination by both members and non-members of the Institute. Below is a brief description of each award together with details of how to nominate potential candidates.
U.R. Evans Award
The U.R. Evans Award is the premier scientific award of the Institute of Corrosion and is presented annually for outstanding international achievements in pure or applied corrosion science. The recipient is selected by a Corrosion Science Division panel and presented with a sword at the annual Corrosion Science Symposium. The symposium is one which seeks to encourage the participation of the junior members of the corrosion community who would appreciate the visit of, and address by, a corrosion scientist of international repute. The form of the award symbolises the fight in which we are all engaged. The recipient is also granted Honorary Life Fellowship of the Institute. Nominations may be submitted at any time via email to the CSD Chair, Julian Wharton (J.A.Wharton@soton.ac.uk).
Paul McIntyre Award
The Paul McIntyre Award is presented to a senior corrosion engineer, who, as well as being a leading practitioner in his field, has advanced European collaboration and international standards development. The award consists of an engraved trophy, which is presented at the annual CED Working Day meeting. The recipient is requested to present a brief overview of their activities and encouraged to prepare an article for publication in Corrosion Management. Nominations should be submitted to the CED Chair, Nick Smart (nick.smart@jacobs.com), by 12th March 2021.
T.P. Hoar Award
The T.P. Hoar Award is presented to the author(s) of the best paper published in the scientific journal Corrosion Science during the previous calendar year. The winning paper is selected by a sub-committee of the Corrosion Science Division and the author(s) receive a certificate and a cash sum of £400.
The winning paper in 2020, from papers published in 2019, was authored by Rigel Hanbury and Gary Was (University of Michigan), for their paper entitled ‘Oxide growth and dissolution on 316L stainless steel during irradiation in high temperature water’ (Corros. Sci. 157 (2019) 305-311 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2019.06.006). The paper elegantly describes a novel approach using a helium bubble marker layer to study 316L oxide growth and dissolution under simultaneous proton radiation and corrosion in 320°C hydrogenated water. Helium implantation was chosen since it is chemically inert and compared to heavier noble gases it generates fewer radiation defects and has a greater implantation range.
Galloway Award
The Galloway Award is presented to a student author for the best publication describing original research in corrosion science and engineering as judged by a sub-committee of the Corrosion Science Division. The student should be the primary author of the work and preferably first author. A summary of the winning paper is published in Corrosion Management and the prize consists of a certificate and a cash sum of £300. The Institute does not retain copyright of the material, so this does not prevent separate publication of the work in a scientific journal. Submissions (in the form of a paper published within the past 12 months, or a draft publication) may be sent via email at any time to the CSD Chair, Julian Wharton (J.A.Wharton@soton.ac.uk). Supervisors may also nominate students.
In 2020, the Galloway Prize recipient was Arpit Goyal (Coventry University) for his paper published in Construction and Building Materials journal entitled ‘Predicting the corrosion rate of steel in cathodically protected concrete using potential shift’ (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.10.153). The paper examined the possibility of predicting the corrosion rates using polarisation data and the Butler-Volmer equation to develop cathodic protection criterion for reinforced concrete exposed to the atmosphere.
Lionel Shreir Award
The Lionel Shreir Award is given to the best student presenter at the annual Corrosion Science Symposium. Selection of the recipient is carried out by a sub-committee of the Corrosion Science Division. The award consists of a certificate and a cash prize of £125.
The Shreir award in 2020 was presented to Christos Kousis (University of Manchester) for his presentation entitled ‘An investigation of the effect of chloride ion concentration on the localised corrosion of the E717 magnesium alloy’. Christos gave an insightful talk on using the in situ scanning vibrating electrode technique, coupled with time-lapse imaging, to study magnesium corrosion behaviour.
For further details on the Institute awards, including lists of past recipients, please visit https://www.icorr.org/icorr-awards/
Latest News
Each year the Institute of Corrosion bestows a range of internationally-renowned awards in recognition of excellence in corrosion science and engineering and to reward outstanding service to the Institute and the wider corrosion community. Many of these awards are open to nomination by both members and non-members of the Institute. Below is a brief description of each award together with details of how to nominate potential candidates.
U.R. Evans Award
The U.R. Evans Award is the premier scientific award of the Institute of Corrosion and is presented annually for outstanding international achievements in pure or applied corrosion science. The recipient is selected by a Corrosion Science Division panel and presented with a sword at the annual Corrosion Science Symposium. The symposium is one which seeks to encourage the participation of the junior members of the corrosion community who would appreciate the visit of, and address by, a corrosion scientist of international repute. The form of the award symbolises the fight in which we are all engaged. The recipient is also granted Honorary Life Fellowship of the Institute. Nominations may be submitted at any time via email to the CSD Chair, Julian Wharton (J.A.Wharton@soton.ac.uk).
Paul McIntyre Award
The Paul McIntyre Award is presented to a senior corrosion engineer, who, as well as being a leading practitioner in his field, has advanced European collaboration and international standards development. The award consists of an engraved trophy, which is presented at the annual CED Working Day meeting. The recipient is requested to present a brief overview of their activities and encouraged to prepare an article for publication in Corrosion Management. Nominations should be submitted to the CED Chair, Nick Smart (nick.smart@jacobs.com), by 12 March 2021.
T.P. Hoar Award
The T.P. Hoar Award is presented to the authors of the best paper published in the scientific journal Corrosion Science during the previous calendar year. The winning paper is selected by a sub-committee of the Corrosion Science Division and the authors receive a certificate and a cash sum of £400.
The winning paper in 2020, from papers published in 2019, was authored by Rigel Hanbury and Gary Was (University of Michigan), for their paper entitled ‘Oxide growth and dissolution on 316L stainless steel during irradiation in high temperature water’ (Corros. Sci. 157 (2019) 305-311). The paper elegantly describes a novel approach using a helium bubble marker layer to study 316L oxide growth and dissolution under simultaneous proton radiation and corrosion in 320°C hydrogenated water. Helium implantation was chosen since it is chemically inert and compared to heavier noble gases it generates fewer radiation defects and has a greater implantation range.
Galloway Award
The Galloway Award is presented to a student author for the best publication describing original research in corrosion science and engineering as judged by a sub-committee of the Corrosion Science Division. The student should be the primary author of the work and preferably first author. A summary of the winning paper is published in Corrosion Management and the prize consists of a certificate and a cash sum of £300. The Institute does not retain copyright of the material, so this does not prevent separate publication of the work in a scientific journal. Submissions (in the form of a paper published within the past 12 months or a draft publication) may be sent via email at any time to the CSD Chair, Julian Wharton (J.A.Wharton@soton.ac.uk). Supervisors may nominate students.
In 2020, the Galloway Prize recipient was Arpit Goyal (Coventry University) for his paper published in Construction and Building Materials journal entitled ‘Predicting the corrosion rate of steel in catholically protected concrete using potential shift’ . The paper examined the possibility of predicting the corrosion rates using polarisation data and the Butler-Volmer equation to develop cathodic protection criterion for reinforced concrete exposed to the atmosphere.
Lionel Shreir Award
The Lionel Shreir Award is given to the best student presenter at the annual Corrosion Science Symposium. Selection of the recipient is carried out by a sub-committee of the Corrosion Science Division. The award consists of a certificate and a cash prize of £125.
The Shreir award in 2020 was presented to Christos Kousis (University of Manchester) for his presentation entitled ‘An investigation of the effect of chloride ion concentration on the localised corrosion of the E717 magnesium alloy’. Christos gave an insightful talk on using the in situ scanning vibrating electrode technique, coupled with time-lapse imaging, to study magnesium corrosion behaviour.
For further details on the Institute awards, including lists of past recipients, please visit https://www.icorr.org/icorr-awards/.
Latest News
I trust you are keeping safe and healthy in these challenging times for us all. It has been very heartening to witness the way in which ICorr activities have transitioned almost seamlessly online. More than ever, our website, social media platforms and online meeting facilities are proving critical in bringing people together and facilitating the excellent networking, training and knowledge transfer activities that the Institute has to offer.
The future of ICorr rests with our younger members and I’m delighted to see the continued success of initiatives to support networking, training and career development of our students, apprentices and early career professionals. We have put younger members firmly at the heart of our membership development strategy and it is fantastic to see some of these activities already coming to fruition. I’ve mentioned some of these below but there is much more to come!
The Institute is proud to support the new Level 2 Industrial Coatings Applicator standard for apprentices, which has been developed in collaboration with Skills Training UK, BINDT and the Highways Agency. I was very pleased to hear that the first cohort of apprentices at Jack Tighe Ltd have successfully passed their End Point Assessment, which consisted of a series of practical tests and a professional discussion over a week in early August. The success of this initiative is down to a lot of hard work by a large number of people but I would particularly like to thank Martin Hillyard and John Whittaker of Jack Tighe Ltd for their strong support for the next generation of coating applicators. Hopefully this will be the first of many such cohorts!
Young ICorr is also continuing to flourish under the leadership of Caroline Allanach. Key to our strategy here is the intention to link Young ICorr activities with local Branch events to broaden the professional network of our early career corrosion engineers and scientists. Combined with the current need to hold Institute events online, this will also have the beneficial effect of revitalising some of our less active Branches. If you are interested in supporting these events in any way please get in touch with Caroline (Caroline.Allanach@gmail.com).
It was a pleasure to attend the 61st Corrosion Science Symposium, which was held online using the Institute’s Zoom Pro account in September. The quality of the talks by the students was very high and there were many interesting discussions, both verbally and via the chat function. I was also honoured to present the U.R. Evans Award (at least virtually) to Prof. Bob Cottis – hopefully there will be an opportunity to present him with the sword itself in the not too distant future!
As a professional society we are constantly striving to develop new ways to raise standards in corrosion protection across a range of sectors. Our training courses are an important part of this strategy and are internationally recognised for their quality and integrity. In the past few years we have been updating and expanding our portfolio of world class training courses. A notable addition that launched on 23 September is our new Level 3 Passive Fire Protection course, which has been developed in collaboration with PFPNet and will set new standards for health and safety in this area.
Finally, I’m delighted to announce a new grade of Corporate Membership, with BP as our first Corporate Member. Our thanks are due to David Mobbs for developing this concept and making it a reality in discussions with BP. I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to BP for agreeing to act as a ‘guinea pig’ for this new grade of membership; their strong support for the Institute and its vital activities is greatly appreciated. Going forward we have exciting plans to roll out Corporate Membership to other larger companies, which will further raise the profile of corrosion protection as a major priority for asset owners.
Enjoy this issue of the magazine – I would also like to point you towards the excellent blogs on our website (www.icorr.org) and the interesting links they contain. Happy reading!
Gareth Hinds, Institute of Corrosion President
