COURSE AIM: The aim of the course is to acquaint students with consequences of insufficient or lacking corrosion protection of metallic structures on humans and environment. To extend the knowledge on the correlation between the various environmental factors and corrosion stability of materials. Corrosion protection methods are presented and a special emphasis is placed on those protection methods that pollute the environment. Possibilities for replacing various toxic substances and risky procedures with new non-toxic compounds and procedures that do not present hazard to environment are analyzed.
The content of the course:
1. Corrosion of metals: causes, theoretical background and types of corrosion processes.
2. Methods for corrosion rate measurement and analysis of corrosion processes. Corrosion monitoring. Causes of pollution. Pollution prevention.
3. Corrosion caused by living organisms. Microbial induced corrosion.
4. Endangerment of human lives and environment by the corrosion of structural materials. Analysis of study cases.
4. Importance of adequate corrosion protection and monitoring in various industries: chemical, food, pharmaceutical, oil and gas industry.
5. Corrosion in human body. Corrosion in nuclear power plants and canisters for nuclear waste storage. Corrosion stability of stainless steel in various environment
7. Increased corrosion in polluted environments and due to the climate change. Corrosion of cultural heritage
8. Corrosion protection methods that negatively influence to the ecological system: Electrochemical methods for corrosion protection: cathodic protection (problem of soluble anodes).
9. Metal protection by treatment of corrosion medium; environmental compliance of corrosion inhibitors (problem of toxic inhibitors); design and investigation of new non-toxic corrosion inhibitors.
10. Protective coatings: problems in surface preparation, metallic coatings (highly toxic electroplating baths);
11.Organic coatings (toxic additives to protective coatings; pigments of heavy metals, organic solvents). Possibility of their replacement with non-toxic compounds and recently developed green technologies .
12. Presentation of student works. Discussion
13. Presentation of student works. Discussion
14. Presentation of student works. Discussion
15. Written exam
GENERAL AND SPECIFIC COMPETENCE:
- Evaluation of hazards that corrosion and inadequate corrosion protection present to environment and human health;
- Evaluation how some of the corrosion protection methods may endanger environment and human health due to the release of toxic compounds;
- Assesing which corrosion protection method is the most adequate for given corrosion issue;
- Relating presence of pollution and climatic parameters to the corrosion level of various structural materials.
STUDENTS OBLIGATIONS:
Attendance of clasess, laboratory exercises and field study classes. Preparation and presentation of seminar paper.
FORMS OF EDUCATION:
Lectures, laboratory practice, seminar papers and field study classes
KNOWLEDGE TESTING AND EVALUATION:
Writing exam. Oral presentation of the seminar paper.
MONITORING OF THE COURSE QUALITY AND SUCCESSFULNESS:
Student survey.
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES AT THE LEVEL OF THE COURSE:
1. assess hazards that corrosion and inadequate corrosion protection present to environment and human health;
2. estimate how some of the corrosion protection methods may endanger environment and human health due to the release of toxic compounds;
3. judge which corrosion protection method is the most adequate for given corrosion issue;
4. relate presence of pollution and climatic parameters to the corrosion level of various structural materials.
5.explain causes of selected corrosion issue based on literature survey.
LEARNING OUTCOMES AT THE LEVEL OF THE STUDY PROGRAMME:
1. recognize the problem by applying integrated basic sciences in the field of environmental protection
2. plan experiments and their implementation to verify the hypothesis
3. apply different analytical techniques, analytical and numerical methods and software tools to solve engineering problems
4. show an independence and reliability in independent work and the efficiency, reliability and adaptability in teamwork
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