Marine and Offshore Corrosion

Marine Engineering Series

Kenneth A Chandler

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780408011754
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483192253
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Hydrology

Marine and Offshore Corrosion describes the principles of effective corrosion control treatments in marine environments, with emphasis on economic solutions to corrosion. The book explains chemical or electrochemical reaction of an alloy with its environment leading to corrosion, and mechanical loss of the metal by erosion, abrasion, or wear resulting also in corrosion. A main consideration of erosion control that the engineer should look into is the economic side. Other considerations that he should investigate are the strength of a structure, time for construction, availability of materials, and costs. The book also discusses the marine environment consisting of sea water, temperature fluctuations, dissolved gases, hydrogen sulphide, ammonia, carbon dioxide, electrical conductivity, fouling. The text describes the selection of materials to be used in marine environments, surface preparation of steel before painting, the type of paint, and metallic coatings. Some of the factors in selecting coating systems are: cost and estimated life before the first scheduled maintenance, adhesion properties, moisture tolerance, elasticity, chemical resistance, impact resistance, bacterial resistance. The factors affecting maintenance include environmental conditions, quality of initial protection applied, type of structure, as well as the design and purpose of the structure. The book has been prepared for engineers and designers who are not corrosion specialists but have to deal with marine corrosion problems as part of their day-to-day professional activities. The text will also turn out to be useful for engineers with general interest in structure, building, or machinery maintenance specially those located near coastal areas.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Marine and Offshore Corrosion
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction : The control of corrosion in marine environments
• Chapter 2. Principles of corrosion
• Chapter 3. Marine environments
• Chapter 4. Forms of corrosion
• Chapter 5. Ferrous alloys
• Chapter 6. Non-ferrous metals and alloys
• Chapter 7. Design
• Chapter 8. The selection of materials for marine environments
• Chapter 9. Protective coatings for steelwork — surface preparation of steel before painting
• Chapter 10. Paint coatings
• Chapter 11. Metallic coatings
• Chapter 12. Attaining the potential performance of coating systems in marine environments
• Chapter 13. The selection of coating systems for marine environments
• Chapter 14. Maintenance painting
• Chapter 15. Control and treatment of the environment
• Chapter 16. Cathodic protection
• Chapter 17. Offshore structures for oil and gas production
• Chapter 18. Protective coating of ships
• Chapter 19. Steel piling
• Chapter 21. Testing and monitoring
• Appendix
• Index