Project

Seeking out corrosion - before it is too late

Acronym
SOCORRO2
Code
41M03419
Duration
22 November 2019 → 31 March 2023
Funding
European funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Recycling
Keywords
corrosion
Other information
 
Project description

This project aims to provide companies with an independent means to assess the corrosion risks in their installations, to increase their awareness and to have them take appropriate preventive actions. To this end, we created a simple, rapid, in situ sensor system able to monitor a range of environmental markers over time to determine the risk of corrosion of steel submerged in water, as well as a statistical method to mine these data for an overall corrosion risk estimate –in short, the SOCORRO system, set at TRL 4. In this project, we will implement and demonstrate this whole set-up in several industrial case studies (wind turbines at sea, water desalination/sanitation, ship’ hulls and ballast tanks, harbour sheet piles, process water) and show the economic opportunities. In addition, we will augment the statistical analysis with an intuitive, practical dashboard tool to present the outflow of information and to convey that risk to the end users. This will raise the TRL to 6 or 7.

 
Role of Ghent University
The PaInT group and the Sustainable Materials Science group will work on demonstrating the SOCORRO approach at industrial sites and on investigating the synergy between biological activity and corrosion in these environments. Furthermore, PaInT will be very active in the scientific communication towards academia, professionals and the public.
 
 
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