- UCAS course code
- F200
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Master of Engineering (MEng)
MEng Materials Science and Engineering with Metallurgy
- Typical A-level offer: AAA including specific subjects
- Typical contextual A-level offer: AAB including specific subjects
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: ABB including specific subjects
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 36 points overall with 6,6,6 at HL, including specific requirements
Course unit details:
Corrosion Control for Industrial Practice
Unit code | MATS43502 |
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Credit rating | 15 |
Unit level | Level 7 |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
This unit provides students with an understanding of the key corrosion processes and mechanisms of preventing these for the Process and Power industries, covering topics such as high temperature corrosion and moving on to environmentally induced cracking and localised corrosion.
Aims
To enable to students to understand the corrosion challenges faced by the Process and Power Industries.
- To enable students to understand how materials selection and the design and use of countermeasures to combat corrosion are commonly used in industry.
- To ensure students understand the specific corrosion challenges in cooling and steam raising equipment
- To enable students to use the R6 Failure Assessment Diagram framework to integrate data on corrosion risks with mechanical and structural design and assessment methods.
Learning outcomes
A greater depth of the learning outcomes will be covered in the following sections:
- Knowledge and understanding
- Intellectual skills
- Practical skills
- Transferable skills and personal qualities
Teaching and learning methods
The course is delivered either via face to face lectures or by online modules. This material was originally developed as an online version of the course, but now serves as a parallel resource for revision, with tests and other activities students may use.
There will be a formative online quiz for practise in the third week of teaching, followed by an assessed quiz activity after the fourth week of teaching (week 22). The final assessed coursework is a lab exercise, to examine Pitting Corrosion. This will be a group report.
Knowledge and understanding
High Temperature
- Describe corrosion processes in high temperature industrial environments such as fossil fuel power plant.
SCC
- Understand the most common types of stress corrosion cracking, the effects of stress, metallurgy and environment on SCC rates and occurrence.
Localised Corrosion
- Quantify the relationship between pitting and crevice corrosion, and relate this to the effects of deposits
Intellectual skills
- Understand both general and localised corrosion/damage processes and the reasons for these occurring.
Practical skills
- Understand the method to set up and monitor a localised corrosion experiment.
Transferable skills and personal qualities
The summative exercises include teamwork exercises to develop students experience of collaborative working in a virtual leaning environment as well as digital platforms.
Assessment methods
Method | Weight |
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Written exam | 70% |
Written assignment (inc essay) | 30% |
Feedback methods
Written and verbal
Recommended reading
Electrocorrosion and Protection of Metals General approach with particular consideration to electrochemical plants
Joseph Riskin
Burlington : Elsevier Science 2008
Online access available
Corrosion and Chemical Resistant Masonry Materials Handbook
William Andrew Publishing/Noyes 1986
Online access available
Understanding how components fail / Donald J. Wulpi.
Donald J. Wulpi author. Brett Miller Metallurgical engineer, editor.
Materials Park, Ohio : ASM International, Third edition / edited by Brett Miller. 2013]
Online access available
Materials selection deskbook / by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff.
Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
Westwood, N.J. : Noyes Publications ©1996
Online access available
Handbook of environmental degradation of materials / edited by Myer Kutz.
Myer Kutz
Waltham, MA : William Andrew 2nd ed. 2013
Online access available
Environmentally assisted cracking : predictive methods for risk assessment and evaluation of materials, equipment, and structures / Russell D. Kane, editor.
R. D Kane
W. Conshohocken, PA : ASTM 2000
Available at Joule Library Main Level (620.182 KAN )
Treatment of Cooling Water / by Aquaprox.
Aquaprox. author. SpringerLink (Online service)
Springer eBooks
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009
Online access available
Selection and use of engineering materials.
J. Charles F. A. A Crane (Frederick Albert Andrew), 1927-1984.; J. A. G Furness
Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann 3rd ed. / J.A. Charles, F.A.A. Crane, J.A.G. Furness. 1997
Online access available. The library also has physical copies.
Materials for Nuclear Plants From Safe Design to Residual Life Assessments / by Wolfgang Hoffelner.
Wolfgang Hoffelner author. SpringerLink (Online service)
Springer eBooks
London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013
Online access available
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Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Lectures | 30 |
Tutorials | 3 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 117 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Fabio Scenini | Unit coordinator |