I have been a corrosion engineer for over 40 years and I have extensive experience with a wide range of materials in many industrial environments, including, marine, oil and gas, mining, power, desalination and chemical and process.
Employment
2012–Present | Corrosion and materials consultant | ||||||||||
2008–2012 | Rolled Alloys Blackburn,Lancashire, UK, Corrosion Services Manager (Weir business bought by Rolled Alloys) | ||||||||||
1991–2008 | Weir Materials & Foundries, Park Works, Newton Heath, Manchester, UK Corrosion Services Manager | ||||||||||
1974–1991 |
BNF Metals Technology Centre, Wantage, Oxon, UK Corrosion and Protection Department
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At both Rolled Alloys and Weir, I was responsible for a wide range of corrosion related activities, reporting to the General Manager of the Technical department. My responsibilities covered the following areas.
While I was Research Manager at BNF Metals Technology Centre my responsibilities included:
Research Experience
During my career I have worked on a wide variety of corrosion problems. Below is a list of some of the areas I have worked in.
In addition to the many research projects carried out I have also acted as a consultant/expert, for BNF’s Technical Services Section, for Weir Group companies and Rolled Alloys investigating major failures. I have also been contracted out as a corrosion consultant to a number of well known companies around the world to help solve specific plant problems. This has involved examination of failed components, determination of the cause of failures, as well as giving advice on materials selection and design.
Publications
Because of the nature of my work most of the results have been presented as confidential reports to clients. However, some of the work has been of a more general nature and I have published over ninety technical papers. In 1986 I was awarded the Bengough Medal by the Institute of Metals for research into the interaction of pollutants and chlorine in seawater and their effect on the corrosion of copper alloy heat exchanger tubes.
In 2001 my book, Galvanic Corrosion – A Practical Guide for Engineers, was published by NACE International. The second edition of this book, with added information, was published in 2017. A second book, The Selection of Materials For Seawater Cooling Systems – A Practical Guide for Engineers, was published in 2005, also by NACE International. My third book, The Corrosion of Copper and Its Alloys – A Practical Guide for Engineers was published by NACE International in 2010. In 2012 I jointly edited with Carol Powell The Corrosion Performance of Metals in the Marine Environment: a basic guide for the European Federation of Corrosion. In 2014 I was awarded the T J Hull prize by NACE International for my publications, who also published The Selection of Materials for Mineral Processing Operations, co-authored with Steve Clarke, in 2016. In 2016 I jointly edited, with Dale McIntyre, a book on Environmental Cracking for MTI, which covered a wide range of materials and problems particularly related to the process industries. In 2018 NACE International published my book, The Corrosion of Duplex Stainless Steels: a Practical Guide for Engineers, and in 2019 they published Avoiding Corrosion in Desalination Plants. I contributed the Galvanic Corrosion chapter to the re-write of F L LaQue’s book on Marine Corrosion, published by Elsevier in 2022.
Professional Bodies and Technical Societies
I am a Chartered Engineer, a member of NACE International and a member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. In 2005 I was made a Fellow of NACE International for my work in marine corrosion. I have organised several one-day conferences, and I have been on the organising committee for a number of International Conferences, including Duplex ’94 (Glasgow, UK; 1994) and Eurocorr 2000 (London, UK; 2000). I was chairman of the Marine Corrosion Forum for 3 years from 1996 to 1998 and I was chairman of the European Region of NACE International (now AMPP) for 1997/8 and 2003/5. I was the European Region Director of NACE International for 2000 – 2003 and 2007 – 2010. I am one of the two UK representatives on the EFC (European Federation of Corrosion) Working Group on Marine Corrosion and I am an active member of WP13, covering corrosion in the Oil and Gas Industry. I was chair of the NACE oil & gas technical committee (STG 32) for the period 2010 – 2012, which oversees the work of numerous sub-committees producing standards and technical documents for the oil and gas industry relating to metals. I was vice-chair of NACE TEG 509X, a forum for discussing corrosion issues in mineral processing and extraction.