Working Party history:
In January 1987, the inaugural meeting of the new EFC WP10 on Microbial
Corrosion took place in Trondheim with Mr. Kenneth Tiller (UK) as its
Chairman. The 1st EFC Workshop on Microbial Corrosion was held with
support from Professor C A C Sequeira and the local societies at Sintra
in Portugal on 7-9 March 1988. The proceedings where published as
Microbial Corrosion - Proceedings of the first EFC workshop (Eds C.A.C.
Sequeira and A. K. Tiller) 1988, Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd, New
York, 1988. This was followed by a 2nd workshop at Sesimbra, Portugal,
in 1991, the proceedings of which were published as Number 8 in the EFC
Series. WP10 also arranged for an English translation of
"Mikrobiologische Materialzerstoerung und Materialschutz"
(Microbiological Degradation of Materials and Methods of Protection) to
appear as No. 10 in the Series during 1992. Dominique Thierry, Sweden,
then took over the chairmanship of WP10, and the 3rd Workshop on
Microbial Corrosion was held in Estoril, Portugal, from 13-16 March
1994. The proceedings appeared subsequently as No. 15 in the EFC
Series. Another book, EFC 22, contained the proceedings of the session
on Microbial Corrosion from EUROCORR 1996. The 4th Workshop on
Microbial Corrosion took place in Lisbon on 6-9 June 1999, and the
proceedings appeared as No. 29 in the EFC Series. At about the same
time, WP10 began assembling a directory of European Experts in
Microbially Induced Corrosion (MIC) and helped to establish a European
Network on MIC. In 2001, Rolf Gubner (Sweden) succeeded Dominique
Thierry as chairman of WP10. Attention has been focussed on the
organisation of strong sessions at EUROCORR.During 2006 and 7 the
working party applied for a Marie-Curie training Network, which was
unfortunately not funded.
Working Party Aims:
The main purpose of the working party is to increase basic
understanding of biocorrosion. This general theme is organised in three
thematic areas:
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Mechanisms of biocorrosion and analytical approaches
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From basic understanding towards knowledge-based risk assessment, monitoring and mitigation techniques
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From basic understanding towards new processes.
Active Working Party Members:
Currently, active members in the Working Party are CNRS (France),
University of Duisburg/Essen (Germany), Université Catholique de
Louvain (Belgium), Hungarian Academy of Science, and Corrosion and
Metals Research Institute AB (KIMAB). All members are via national
Corrosion Societies members of the EFC.
Working Party Activities:
An interesting development is "the use of Magnesium alloys as
orthopaedic implant materials". A group consisting of EFC-member
associations, such as CAMPI (Israel), the laboratory of Lorenzo
Fedrizzi (Chairman WP14 Coatings), KIMAB and the Medical University
Hannover (Annastift, Germany) are planning to submit a proposal to the
EU for a STREP project supporting this activity.
The Working Party will give another go at the Marie-Curie Training network early 2008.
WP10 publications & Results from the Thematic Network "MIC of Industrial materials":
During 1998 to 2002 a Thematic Network on MIC of Industrial Materials
was funded by the European Commission (BRRT-CT98-5084). The purpose of
this network was to bring together scientists and engineers from
European industries, research organisations and universities to promote
scientific and technological co-operation in order to better understand
microbiologically-influenced corrosion (MIC), sometimes termed
biocorrosion, phenomena, to assess its’ risk, and to propose effective
ways of its’ mitigation. The multidisciplinary character of the project
requires promoting effective communication between all the different
partners involved in the network. Comminication was organised according
to three main areas:
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Enhancement of the relations between academic teams with different
backgrounds (biochemistry, microbiology, electrochemistry, and
materials) is necessary to improve the fundamental understanding of
microbiologically-induced degradation and/or corrosion.
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Exchanges between engineers from different industrial sectors are
strongly encouraged. Each of them possesses a particular know-how for
MIC prevention in different application domains. Their techniques gain
efficiency if they exchange their different experiences.
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To create multiple links between academic teams and R&D industrial
groups. This provides the academic investigators with new specific MIC
cases, on practical applications and at industrial scale. On the other
hand, the connection with academic researchers helps the industrial
partners to organise their own approach concerning fundamental
well-identified topics and to define more efficient strategies against
MIC.
The University of Portsmouth organised under the umbrella of the
network a summerschool in 2002. Most of the lectures given are available
for
download
.
Some Guides:
Simple Methods for the investigation of the role of Biofilms in Corrosion
, written by Task Group 1, especially: Iwona Beech, Alain Bergel,
Alfonso Mollica, Hans-Curt Flemming (Task Leader), Vittoria Scotto and
Wolfgang Sand.
Comments and suggestions are welcome
.
Questionnaire MIC-Risk Assessment: Is it MIC or is it not MIC?
This questionnaire is a draft form that is intended to help to answer this question.
Provide us
with your comments and remarks, please.
Workshop Proceedings:
Biocorrosion 99-01: Corrosion of Steel Sheet Piles in Seawater, Meeting
held on March 24, 1999 at Cherbourg, France. The proceedings of this
workshop are not electronically available but can be obtained in print
from
Damien Féron
(Chairperson WP4).
Biocorrosion 99-02
: Methods for Investigation of Biofilms, Meeting held on May 17-18, 1999 at Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
Biocorrosion 00-01
: Biofilm and MIC Monitoring: state-of-the-art held on April 13, 2000
at Venezia, Italy. The presentation of Hans-Curt Flemming is not
included in the proceedings, as the file size exceeds 7.5 MB. It can be
downloaded as a
separate file
.
Workshop "Enzymes and Corrosion" in Paris, France, December 05, 2000.
What role do enzymes play in corrosion? This workshop was the second on
this topic and was organised by
Damien Féron
(CEA, France).
Workshop "Localised Electrochemical Techniques", March 07-08, 2002, Stockholm, Sweden. This workshop was organised by
Rolf Gubner
.
COST 520 final Workshop, March 10-13, 2002, Stockholm, Sweden (contact
Rolf Gubner for more details). This meeting was organised by the
Swedish Corrosion Institute. Most COST 520 projects were presented in
this last workshop of this action. The proceedings of the workshop are
availabe on CD-ROM (contact
Rolf Gubner
to receive your copy).
Presentations:
Optical Fouling Monitors, R. L.Wetegrove
, NALCO, USA presented on the Workshop on Biofouling Monitoring
Systems, held in Venice, Apr. 2000. The presentation was kindly given
by R. L. Wetegrove for display on this website.
A Sum Up of Field Experiences 00-03 as pdf-file
. By Anna Iversen, Outokumpu, Sweden, presented on the second general meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
Monitoring systems for MIC
. Pierangela Cristinai, CESI, Italy, presented this paper at the COST
520 action (Biofouling and Materials) in Budapest 31.05. - 03.06.2000.
Papers for Discussion:
Do micro-organisms "eat" metal?
(Biocorrosion 00-03) This paper was written by Sten B. Axelsen and
Trond Rogne, SINTEF Materials Technology as a discussion basis for task
group 2, corrosion.
Sketch to Report: Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Stainless
Steels in Sea Water - Critical Parameters (Biocorrosion 00-04)
is also written by Sten B. Axelsen and Trond Rogne, SINTEF Materials Technology.
Summary of the European Directives Regulating the Placing of the Biocorrosion and Corrosion Inhibitors on the Market
, I. Ghillebaert, Ecotox (in co-operation with MEXEL), France.
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