NACE 2019-Report by the ICorr Young Engineers Competition Winners

摘要

The prize for the winning team of The Institute of Corrosion's Young Engineer Competition was a visit to the NACE 2019 Corrosion Conference and Expo in Nashville,USA.The following report by the team highlights a selection of their learnings from the conference on the theme of 'Corrosion Mechanisms,Novel Materials and New Coating Applications for Managing and Mitigating Corrosion in Harsh Environments'.The winning team comprised of,Danny Burkle from LBBC Baskerville,Caroline Earl from Fluor Corporation,Oliver Smith and Jessica Easton from AkzoNobel.In 2016,NACE International released the International Measures of Prevention,Application,and Economics of Corrosion Technologies(IMPACT)study which estimated the current global cost of corrosion to be US $2.5 trillion,which is equivalent to 3.4% of the global GDP.The study estimated that savings on an annual global basis could be up to $875 billion(35%)through the use of available corrosion control practices.To achieve the full extent of these savings,corrosion management and its integration into an organisation's management system must be accomplished by implementing appropriate corrosion management systems.