The Experts
Corrosionpedia sources expert writers from across the world for their expertise and insight into corrosion science, prevention and mitigation.
Roger Alexander
Roger Alexander is a cathodic protection expert with more than four decades of experience in the field. He is the inventor of the Alexander Cell, a...
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An Introduction to the Alexander Cell
Della Anggabrata
Della is a civil engineer with extensive and progressing experience in a consulting industry with a unique technical skill that combines civil and...
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Pipe Inspection Using Radiography and Software Simulation
Australasian Corrosion Association
The ACA is a not-for-profit, membership Association which disseminates information on corrosion and its prevention or control by providing training,...
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How CCTV is Changing Sewer and Pipeline Asset Management
Denis Baker, Eng.
Denis Baker has been with Rhino Linings for more than 7 years overseeing major projects, and supplying technical information, specification, and...
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Flexible Coatings for Protection of Marine Structures
Levente Bazsanyi
Levente Bazsanyi studied at the University of Debrecen in Hungary, where he earned his BS in Chemical Engineering, specializing in Polymer Industrial...
David Beamish
David Beamish is President of DeFelsko Corporation, a New York-based manufacturer of hand-held coating test instruments sold worldwide. He has a...
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8 Methods of Coating Thickness Measurement
Ron Bianchetti
A past board member of NACE, Ron Bianchetti has 38 years of professional experience in corrosion engineering design, project management, and...
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A Look At New Trenchless Technology for Water Infrastructure
Glen Bishop
Glen Bishop was the Surveyor for Class Society (insurance authority) World-wide. While surveying, he saw ships with electrolysis hull damage, most...
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How to Stop a Ship's Marine Corrosion in 3 Steps
David Blackwell
David Blackwell is the Engineering Director at Belzona Polymerics Ltd. As Engineering Director, David has the responsibility for providing product...
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How Industry Teamwork Can Reduce Coating Failures
Gavin Bowers, CEng
Gavin Bowers started his professional career in ship maintenance, repair and conversion, where the effects of erosion and corrosion are severe and...
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Case Studies of a Novel Elastomer for Cavitation Resistance
Steven Bradley
Steven Bradley is currently the principal consultant at Bradley Consulting Services having retired after 44 years from UOP-Honeywell as Senior...
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6 Tests to Assess Intergranular Corrosion Using ASTM A262
Warren Brand
Warren Brand has worked in every aspect, and eventually owned, an industrial coating company for more than 20 years and is currently an industry...
Monica Chauviere
Monica Chauviere is a recognized expert in the field of corrosion under insulation (CUI), with more than 30 years’ work with ExxonMobil Baytown...
Mark Davidson, Eng.
Mark has worked more than 35 years in the corrosion protection industry mostly in the Oil and Gas sector. He started out on an operating oilfield and...
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Writing Safety Into Your Coating Specification
Greg Denton
Mr. Greg Denton has more than 20 years of experience in the pipeline coatings industry. Working literally “from the ground up” with...
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In Support of Phosphoric Acid Wash for Pipe Coating
Mahmoud Elmahdy
Senior cathodic protection engineer interested in all corrosion branches. I want to be a cathodic protection specialist with high experience in...
Doug Fast
Doug is an experienced technical professional with a passion for learning and applying knowledge to support the goal of solving customer problems. As...
Monica Fernandez
Mónica Fernández is an active member of NACE with 15 years of experience in the Oil & Gas Industry. She holds a Bachelor’s...
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Why Pigging Out Is A-OK When It Comes to Cleaning Pipelines
Kyle Flanagan, B.S.
Past President of the Polyurea Development Association (PDA), Kyle Flanagan is a coatings and polyurea chemist and entrepreneur based in California....
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Polyurea Coating Spotlight with Kyle Flanagan
Rob Francis
Ph.D., Corrosion Science, University of MelbourneRob Francis has 40 years’ experience in the corrosion and coatings fields, with emphasis on...
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IOZ Coating Surface Preparation Is Easier than You Think
Jim Gooden
Jim Gooden has been involved with the corrosion control industry since 1989. He aspires to improve the quality of corrosion prevention projects...
Fred Goodwin
Fred Goodwin is a chemist with more than 30 years of experience in the construction chemicals industry, including cement manufacture, research,...
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Concrete Flooring Moisture Issues
Raghvendra Gopal
Raghvendra Gopal is a post graduate in Industrial Metallurgy from IIT Chennai, India. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Metallurgy from IIT...
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Corrosion Prevention and Lightweighting Vehicles
Wade Hannon
Wade Hannon is an Area Sales Manager – Specialty Products at GRACO Inc. with responsibilities for equipment demonstrations, technical support...
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Blast Pressure: How to Get It Right
Ted Huck
Ted Huck is an electrical engineer and cathodic protection expert with over 25 years of experience in technical sales. He has authored over a dozen...
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Decommissioning Your Cathodic Protection Well
Reza Javaherdashti
Dr. Reza Javaherdashti holds a double degree in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering. He has more than 20 years of industrial and academic...
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Corrosion Knowledge Management Vs. Corrosion Management
Dennis Jayasinghe
Dennis Jayasinghe is a Senior Corrosion Engineer with over 15 years of combined experience in industry and research. Dennis brings substantial...
Raouf Kattan
Raouff Kattan is a chartered engineer with a background in academia, seafaring, shipping, shipbuilding, and naval architecture, and specialist...
Alan Kehr
Alan Kehr has more than 40 years’ experience in the pipeline and reinforcing steel coatings industries, specializing in research and...
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How to Control Corrosion by Improving Design
John Kilbane
John Kilbane is a project manager in oilfield and petroleum microbiology at Intertek and an adjunct professor of biology at the Illinois Institute of...
Dileep Koodalil
Dileep Koodalil is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in ultrasonic non-destructive testing (NDT). He holds a Master's degree in NDT and Bachelors's...
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Coring: How to Properly Remove This Damaging Alloy Defect
Ames Kulprathipanja
Ames Kulprathipanja is the Innovation Leader for the Insulation Systems business unit of Johns Manville as well as the Technology Leader for the...
Mike Lawson
Mike Lawson is President and CEO of Persyst Enterprises, Inc. and the inventor of the first and only refrigeration machine distiller-reclaimer that...
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The Best Process for Distilling Waste Solvents
Ian MacMoy
With more than a decade of experience working as a coatings applicator and formulator, MacMoy has seasoned experience in mitigating fastener failure...
Osvaldo Mejia
Osvaldo Mejia currently serves as a Sr. Pipeline Integrity Engineer at Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) LLC. He has over 15 years of experience...
Mohamed Adel Mohamadein
Mohamed Mohamadein is the head of the corrosion department at Arab Petroleum Pipelines company (Sumed). He has 14 years of experience in the...
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How to Perform an ACVG Survey
Kashif Mohammad
Kashif Mohammad is a Chartered Engineer, currently working at BS Stainless Limited based in the UK. He leads the R&D activities within the...
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The Role of Metal Jacketing in CUI
Krystal Nanan
Krystal is a civil engineer and project manager with an MSc in Construction Engineering and Management. Her experience includes the...
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Futureproofing New and Existing Pipelines
Chikezie Nwaoha
Chikezie Nwaoha, Ph.D. is a Process Engineer with more than 7 years’ research and development experience in carbon capture and utilization from...
Osmay Oharriz, Ch.E., M.Sc.
A chemical engineer and Master in Engineering Sciences by profession, Osmay Oharriz has 8 years’ experience in the coatings industry. In his...
Nemanja Pavlovic
Nemanja is a mechanical engineer with a B.Sc. degree in ICE engines. He is currently working on his M.Sc. in Welding Engineering, and his scientific...
Hap Peters
Managing Director, CHLOR RID International, Inc., a global supplier of surface preparation testing and surface treatment products.Educational...
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Salt Limits to Prevent Premature Coating Failures
Michael Pfeifer
Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., P.E. is Principal Consultant and Trainer for Industrial Metallurgists, LLC. He provides metallurgy training and metallurgical...
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Why is Stainless Steel Corrosion Resistant?
Martin Rodriguez
Martin A. Rodriguez is a senior researcher of the National Commission of Atomic Energy (CNEA) and the National Scientific and Technical Research...
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The 4 Key Types of Crevice Corrosion
Francisco Servigna
Francisco Servigna has 15 years of experience in the Venezuelan National Oil Company as a process and corrosion engineer.Francisco holds a...
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Important Facts You Might Not Know About Copper Patina
Andry Soetiawan
Andry Soetiawan is an independent material and corrosion consultant with 14 years of experience working across a broad range of the industry value...
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An In-Depth Look at Materials Selection
Arun K. Soman, ME
Arun Soman is a mechanical engineer with more than 10 years’ experience in the field of asset integrity of static equipment in the oil and gas...
Chrissy Stewart
Chrissy Stewart is a senior chemist with KTA-Tator, Inc. Employed with KTA since 2006, she is heavily involved in coating failure investigation and...
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The Composition of a Paint Coating
Heather Stiner
Ms. Heather Stiner is a 1997 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh where she studied chemistry. She has been with SSPC since 2006 as the...
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Soluble Salts and Coating Performance
Tom Swan
Thomas Swan is Manager of M-TEST (Montipower–Test Equipment & Specialty Tool), a distributor of coating inspection, welding inspection and...
Kenneth B. Tator, P.E
Ken is the Chairman of the Board of KTA-Tator, Inc., the son of KTA’s founder, and an internationally renowned industry expert with over 45...
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An Overview of Alkyd Resins
Sarah Taylor
Sarah Taylor is a materials and corrosion specialist with over 10 years of experience in the areas of materials, welding, corrosion, fabrication...
Britney Taylor, C.E.
Britney Taylor is a civil engineer by education and has spent the last 5 years working as a professional in the pipeline and corrosion mitigation...
Aldrich Tyto
Aldrich Tyto is a corrosion and fouling expert and manager of the in-house laboratory at the CORROSION headquarters.
Dr. Mike O'Donoghue and Vijay Datta
Dr. Mike O’Donoghue is the Director of Engineering and Technical Services for AkzoNobel Coatings Ltd. (Canada). He has a Ph.D. in Inorganic...
Paul Vince
Paul Vince is an Associate Materials Engineer with WSP, focused primarily on condition assessment and durability within the water industry. He has a...
Louis D. Vincent
Renowned corrosion-industry author and teacher, Lou Vincent has 57 years’ experience in the coatings industry. Lou co-authored the third...
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The Anatomy of a Coating Failure
Mark Weston
Mark Weston, a native of South Australia, is a distinguished corrosion expert with over 45 years’ experience in technical management roles at...
Mehdi Yari
Mehdi Yari currently serves as a postdoctoral fellow in the Electrochemistry and Corrosion Laboratory at the University of Western Ontario. He was...
