Metallurgy Corrosion and Prevention of Failures
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
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Metallurgy Corrosion and Prevention of Failures | 19 Oct 2025 | 23 Oct 2025 | Dubai, UAE | $ 3,900 | Register |

Metallurgy Corrosion and Prevention of Failures
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Metallurgy Corrosion and Prevention of Failures | 19 Oct 2025 | 23 Oct 2025 | Dubai, UAE | $ 3,900 |
Introduction
The first step in the safety and reliability of refinery equipment is identifying, understanding, preventing the relevant failure mechanisms. Corrosion is the primary cause of the failure of components in the process industries. The success or failure of the equipment to the corrosive environment to a great extent depends on the right metallurgy. Thus a proper understanding of the metallurgy and corrosion phenomenon helps engineers to mitigate corrosion and to monitor it on a periodic basis, based on which, corrective actions can be taken. Premature failure of critical components like pipelines, tanks, pressure vessels, boilers and related equipment, heat exchangers, and welded joints often results in operating downtime, loss of production, environmental pollution, and in some cases, loss of human life. Millions of dollars are spent every year by these industries to combat corrosion. The course crosses the boundaries from the fundamental information to top-notch in the recent technological achievement in this field.
Objectives
- Understand the fundamental theories of aqueous corrosion and dry corrosion
- To understand basic metallurgy and choice of material selection suitable for the specific application
- To enable the attendees to grasp the advanced information in preventive as well as predictive maintenance of equipment
- To present different forms of corrosion from various mechanisms and related environmental factors
- Corrosion control techniques
- To illustrate study cases pertaining to corrosion failures, mainly pipelines, storage tanks, pressure vessels, boilers, and heat exchangers
- To present the advanced corrosion monitoring technologies
- To present typical corrosion failures and to illustrate the inter-relationship between fabrication techniques, service conditions and their effect on the corrosion resistance of engineering metals and alloys
Upon the successful completion of this course the participants will:
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.
Who Should Attend?
The course is designed essentially for professionals such as process engineers, inspection personnel, mechanical engineers, material selection personnel, R&D persons, corrosion engineers, plant contractors, etc. The course is also useful for plant engineers as well as for operating/maintenance staff related to pipelines, tanks, pressure vessels, etc. Anyone who needs to understand corrosion and other failures and how to carry out failure protection will find the course immensely beneficial.
Course Outline
Introduction
- Review of basic metallurgy
- Review of iron-carbon equilibrium diagram
- Effects of alloying elements, Alloy steel and stainless steels, ASTM specifications for carbon steels, alloy steels and stainless steels, Mechanical properties of metals, Materials for high-temperature service
- Materials for low-temperature service
- Materials of sour service (NACE standard)
- Selection of material of construction
- Selection of substitute materials
- Forms of corrosion and prevention of failure in oil and gas industries
- Common corrosion phenomenon
- Erosion/ corrosion, atmospheric corrosion, corrosion under insulation (CUI)
- Cooling water corrosion, boiler water condensate corrosion, Sulfidation, chloride stress corrosion cracking (ClSCC), Caustic stress corrosion cracking (caustic embrittlement), Wet H2S damage (Blistering/HIC/SOHIC/SCC), Case studies pertaining to the corrosion failures
- Prevention of equipment failure by choosing correct materials, Prevention of equipment failure by choosing correct operating conditions
- Corrosion monitoring techniques :
- Corrosion coupon testing, Electrochemical resistance probe, Ultrasonic thickness measurements, Measurements of corrosion potential, Alternating current impedance measurements, Hydrogen probes, corrosometer probes, Practical application of the corrosion monitoring methods
- Final quiz & Feedback and concluding Session