Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials: Volume 4 Issue 5

CORROSION COMMENTARY: Coats off to Corrosion!

The growing awareness of the need to conserve material resources is one of the most heartening features of the contemporary industrial scene. Economy of utilisation is the…

Non‐Destructive Techniques IN REFINERY INSPECTION

P.W. Sherwood

Considerable headway is being made in the acceptance of non‐destructive testing methods for refinery construction and maintenance. If properly used, these techniques constitute a…

CORROSION IN THE SULPHURIC ACID INDUSTRY: Soviet Union Experience—By a Special Correspondent

A book was published in Moscow last year (1956) by Goskhim‐izdat (State Chemical Publishing Centre) entitled ‘Corrosion and Methods of Protecting Equipment in the Sulphuric Acid…

Corrosion‐Preventive Packaging with V.P.I.

Most packaging methods employed for protection of metal parts against corrosion depend for their effectiveness upon prevention of access by moisture to the metal article…

MODERN SPRAY PACKAGING: Goods Ready For Instant Use

Some two years ago the spray‐packaging division of R. A. Brand & Co. Ltd. moved into new premises at Letchworth, Herts. In this expanding factory are carried out the division's…

APPLYING WRAPPING TAPES

A range of tape dispensers has been introduced by the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Three machines recently shown for the first time are a continuous can sealer, a…

PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES: PROVIDING INDUSTRY WITH THE MEANS TO COMBAT CORROSION

Melting Furnaces. A British firm has recently developed mains frequency ferrous and non‐ferrous electric melting furnaces. These are specially designed for large and small…

Corrosion, its Causes, Cost and Prevention: A Brief History of the Growth of Corrosion Study

W. Harris

The phenomenon of metallic corrosion was recognised in ancient times and, although a considerable amount of work has now been done in this field, especially during the last few…

PEOPLE

These pictures show a few of the personalities and speakers at the recent two‐day Anglo‐Belgian meeting in Brussels, organised by the Centre Beige d'Etude de la Corrosion…

CORROSION RESEARCH ROUND‐UP

GREAT BRITAIN. Research at Cambridge University on aluminium. The oxidation of aluminium in dry and humid oxygen atmospheres has been investigated, using electrolytically polished…

COPPER • ZINC • ALUMINIUM • FERROUS METALS • CONCRETE: CORROSION OF METALS IN BUILDINGS LONDON SYMPOSIUM, MARCH, 1957

S. BAKER, E. CARR, E.H. LAITHWAITE, E.W. SKERREY, PHILIP E. HALSTEAD, I.C. HUDSON, F. WORMWELL, F.E. JONES, R.W. BAILEY, H.G. RIDGE

The following are shortened versions of papers read at the recent symposium on the corrosion of metals in buildings. The symposium was arranged by the Corrosion Group of the…

CORROSION OF STEEL PILING IN GERMAN CANALS

About 30 years ago the Dortmund‐Ems Canal started to be adapted for modern traffic. Steel piling was used at that time to protect the canal banks. When the work was resumed after…

Technical Literature

W. Summer

Corrosion and Wear of Steel. By G. W. Akimov. German edition of the Russian original. VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin, 1956. Pp. 180, illus. DM18 (approx. £1 10s.). This book is a…

New Heavy Chromium Deposition Plant

New plant for the electrochemical deposition of chromium, which can accommodate components up to 15 ft. long, 5 ft. dia. and weighing up to 6 tons, has just been completed at the…