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CorrosionManagement | September/October 2009INSTITUTENEWSThe President Writes...One of the things I like about corrosion(apart from its ability to give me and manyothers a good living) is the enormous rangeit covers. Yesterday illustrated it to me as wellas any. In the morning I had the honour ofpresenting Professor Christofer Leygraf of theRoyal Institute of Technology in Stockholmwith the Institute’s U. R. Evans Award at the50th Corrosion Science Symposium held atManchester University. Afterwards, this worthyaward winner fascinated the audience withan explanation of his work on atmosphericcorrosion at the molecular level using stateof-the-artin situ analytical techniques. Inthe afternoon, someone sent me a set ofphotographs of one of the sorriest lookingsteel and reinforced concrete structures I haveever seen and asked if it would be possibleto repair it. Let’s put it this way, it was theequivalent of a vet being presented with abloody dog collar and asked if Rover wouldpull through. Both myself and Prof. Leygrafwere ‘doing corrosion’, but that’s probablywhere the similarity ends.Another example would be explaining theprinciples of cathodic protection. You cando it essentially numerically employingPourbaix diagrams developed from chemicalthermodynamics – or, as I prefer, bung a lumpof steel, a zinc bar and a reference electrodeinto a box full of damp sand and get busy witha DVM. I’ll tell you what, the latter is a darnedsight better at explaining IR drop, ‘instant offs’and potential decays, but I suppose it dependswho your audience is and what their needsare. Vive la diversité!Just as the summer holiday season grindsto a halt, the autumn conference seasonfires up and no one event is more eagerlyawaited than Correx2009 (see, productplacement has alreadyarrived in ICorr). As ifBirmingham wasn’texciting enough, from27th to 29th Octoberthe ICorr’s premiercorrosion conferencehits the NEC withparallel sessions onprotective coatings andcathodic protection.Details should be foundelsewhere in this issue– if not, somethinghas gone terriblywrong at the printers. Seriously though, areally excellent programme of speakers andexhibitors has been pulled together and Ihope to see as many of you as possible inBrum this October.I’ve been inundated (i.e. more than two) withexpressions of interest regarding my proposedrust safari venture – although, to date, nogood-will deposits. With that in mind, thisedition’s photo is the first of a new series Icall ‘Where’s that Wally Standing Now?’,along the lines of the popular book-basedobservation games, but without the red andwhite stripey shirt and scarf. You will note,not surprisingly, that the parapet casting tomy side is somewhat afflicted with rust. Butwhere am I and what building am I standingin front of? First person with the correctanswer gets a crisp tenner from me for thecharity of their choice and if no-one gets it, Ichoose one. Sound fair?Terms and conditions apply. Not open toemployees of ICorr or Square One or anyoneI’ve bored to death with my holiday pics.Bon chance!NEW SUSTAINING MEMBER PROFILEBrewers Protective CoatingsA division of Brewers Decorating Merchantsdedicated to providing specialist service,support and paint systems in the potentiallyconfusing high performance coatings sectorof the industry.Our Protective Coatings Centre and teamof Icorr trained and qualified, locally basedPainting Inspectors are able to offer thefollowing services;• Free technical advice.• Free site visit.• Free written specifications.• Free product literature and datasheets.Full sales, and after sales support.We offer impartial and independentadvice, allowing us to recommend thebest products and systems from a range ofmanufacturers for each individual project.From conception to completion our teamis available to advise, recommend andsupport you to a successful finish.Brewers Protective Coatings, Reform Rd, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 8DATel : 01628 784964Fax : 01628 672578E-mail: info@brewersprotectivecoatings.co.ukWeb: www.brewersprotectivecoatings.co.uk4
CorrosionManagement | September/October 2009INSTITUTENEWS50th corrosion science symposiumand ur evans awardThe 50th Corrosion Science ScienceSymposium was held in Manchester onthe 16th and 17th of September runningin conjunction with the Royal Society ofChemistry’s annual Electrochem conference.Following the successful collaboration ofthe two meetings in Southampton in 2003,this was another well attended meeting,with over 210 attendees. Discussions on ournext link up with the RSC in a few years arealready underway.The chance to meet up and exchange ideaswith the electrochemists and electrochemicalengineers who form the core of the RSC’sFaraday and Electroanalysis groups is alwaysa useful exercise for those of us working onthe electrochemical side of corrosion studies.In particular, the scheduling of the plenarylectures to run across the whole timetableensures that not only do those of us incorrosion get to hear about the most excitingdevelopments in the electrochemistry world,but also that the RSC audience are luckyenough to attend the Evans Award plenarylecture on corrosion.The winner of the Evans Award for 2009was Professor Christofer Leygraf of theRoyal Institute of Technology, Stockholmin Sweden, who received the sword fromPaul Lambert, president of the Institute ofCorrosion. Professor Leygraf has led his groupover the last 25 years to develop techniquesto investigate atmospheric corrosionmechanisms at the moecular level. His workto integrate different techniques, such as theuse of the quartz crystal microbalance andThe winner of the Evans Award for 2009 was Professor Christofer Leygraf of the Royal Instituteof Technology, Stockholm in Sweden, who received the sword from Paul Lambert.infrared spectroscopy to measure the surfacechemistry of processes and combine thisinformation with traditional electrohemicaltechniques has added greatly to thetheoretical basis of atmospheric corrosion.In the Corrosion Science Symposiumthe winner of the prize for the best studentpresentation in the Corrosion ScienceSymposium was Majid Ghahari, fromAlison Davenport’s group at the Universityof Birmingham, who spoke on hiswork on ‘Synchrotron studies of StainlessSteel Pitting Corrosion’, and showed somevery interesting videos taken of pit growthchanging under restricted current supply.Next year’s meeting is to be held inSouthampton in the first week of September,organised by Julian Wharton, so expect to seea flyer in these pages very soon.The winner of the prize for the best student presentation in the Corrosion Science Symposiumwas Majid Ghahari, from Alison Davenport’s group at the University of Birmingham.5
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