Articles on corrosion protection

Ultraviolet does not cause corrosion. It destroys what prevents it. That distinction sounds like semantics until you see a site where the coating was specified entirely by the book — right environment…

A coating holds not because of the paint, but because of what it was applied to. Among protective coating failures, surface preparation is cause number one by a wide margin. And it…

The outside of a tank can be repainted. The inside, practically speaking, cannot. To reach the internal surface the vessel must be emptied, cleaned, gas-freed and ventilated, and the whole unit taken…

Corrosion is not an event but a process with a known rate. It cannot be “prevented” once and for all — it can only be slowed to a rate at which the…