Saline environments enhance uniform metal corrosion. They can also lead to pitting attack in stainless steels.

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Expert Metal Corrosion Testing and Analysis.

Metal pipelines exposed to atmospheres containing traces of chloride can fail catastrophically.

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Corrosion Damage Can Lead To Metal Cracking.

Alloys that absorb hydrogen from corrosion can fail suddently from brittle fracture.

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Hydrogen From Corrosion Can Lead To Embrittlement.

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Corrosion Testing & Solutions, LLC (CT&S)

Corrosion of a metal alloy in an aqueous or moist environment results in its continuous destructive degradation until failure, posing economic losses and safety risks.

Our Mission

We evaluate the corrosion behavior of your materials and provide you with knowledge and corrosion tools for you to make the most of your materials.

Our Expertise

Our team has academic and industrial experience on corrosion testing and corrosion evaluation that can benefit your business.

Our Services

At Corrosion Testing and Solutions LLC (CT&S), we do corrosion testing of metal alloys relevant to your unique environment. We also provide you with corrosion training and consulting.

Corrosion Impact on Materials

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At CT&S, our mission is to help your business address corrosion issues.

Corrosion of a metal alloy in a corroding environment results in its continuous destructive degradation until failure. It is caused by electrochemical reactions at the corroding metal surface involving mainly an anodic oxidation reaction conducing to oxide formation, mass loss, or localized attack; and a simultaneous reduction reaction conducing to hydrogen absorption which can lead to structural damage and sudden metal failure.

At CT&S we are equipped to evaluate the corrosion behavior of metal alloys relevant to your working or corroding process conditions. We test different forms of metal corrosion subject to the type of alloys and process conditions.

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Addressing corrosion issues makes your business competitive

The reboiler explosion was attributed to severe corrosion of its carbon steel shell holding highly toxic hydrofluoric gas.

Remands of a Honeywell HF reboiler after its catastrophic explosion.

The failure was caused by excessive corrosion of a support beam whose thickness was severely reduced.

Fatal thrill ride at a Columbus Ohio fair.

Corrosion of the pipe severely reduced its wall thickness to below 1 mm, causing the pipe wall to rupture.

Failed pipe section of oil pipeline due to atmospheric corrosion.

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Addressing metal corrosion issues in a field or in a plant process environment requires a good understanding
of the metal corrosion characteristics in such corroding environment.

The corrosion rate of copper in 3.5% NaCl solution, Icorr Cu, is much larger than that Icorr of 303 SS.

Corrosion rate (Icorr) of copper and of 303 SS in 3.5% NaCl solution.

Chloride-containing environments can induce severe pitting attack and metal perforation.

Anodic polarization of 303 SS in 3.5% NaCl solution at RT

Pitting due to chloride (red graph) significantly decreases the corrosion resistance of 304 SS.

Nyquest impedance data before and after pitting: 304 SS in NaCl solution.