The ACA would like to extend our thanks to Jim Hickey for providing this Guide for the benefit of ACA members. The NSW Electrolysis Committee was established in 1932 to provide guidance to the Electricity Authority of NSW on the control of stray currents and their effects on buried structures. Under the Electricity Supply Act...
8th August 2021
Presenter Ramon Salazar is a Senior Materials Engineer at South Australian Water Corporation. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the corrosion control field, focusing on cathodic protection, concrete degradation and non-metallic materials. He is currently the chairman of the South Australian Electrolysis Committee. He has an Engineering degree from Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela and is a chartered professional member of Engineers Australia. He is also NACE CP4 Cathodic Protection Specialist.
8th August 2021
Presenter Dr Bruce Ackland is a Corrosion and Cathodic Protection Scientist, he obtained a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics at Monash University in 1979 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1984, also at Monash University in the Department of Materials Engineering. Bruce has worked in the corrosion and cathodic protection industry since 1982, forming Bruce Ackland and Associates in 1985. Cathodic protection projects have involved work throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Bruce maintains an active role as a member and chairman in Australian Standards committees; is the current Chairman of the Australian Electrolysis Committee and is an accredited ACA lecturer and Corrosion Technologist.
8th August 2021
Presenter Candice Blackney is currently a Senior Engineer in Corrosion Management at Greater Western Water. She specialises in the cathodic protection of pipelines and has an interest in sewer corrosion too. She has been involved in the corrosion industry for exactly 11 years now, starting her journey in corrosion at Melbourne Water as a vacation student at the age of 19. The path into the corrosion industry was very clear for her and starting in high school where she was fascinated with redox reactions and how atoms interacted. She has a Bachelor of Engineering (Materials) from Monash University and also worked as a contractor, where she designed ICCP systems and managed water corrosion maintenance and minor capital contracts.
8th August 2021
Presenter Mike Yongjun Tan is a Professor in Applied Electrochemistry and Corrosion Technologies at Deakin University in Australia. He is also a Research Program Leader of the Energy Pipelines Cooperative Research Centre. Dr Tan’s principal teaching and research interests are in corrosion science and engineering and their applications for enhancing the reliability and durability of civil and industrial infrastructures. He contributed to electrochemical methods for corrosion testing, monitoring and prediction and corrosion inhibitor and anti-corrosion coating research. He is author of some 150 publications and a book entitled “Heterogeneous Electrode Processes and Localised Corrosion”(2012 John Wiley & Sons).
5th August 2021
Presenter Jim Hickey is the Electrolysis Engineering Officer at Ausgrid. Jim has over 36 years’ experience with Energy Authorities covering electrical testing, earthing design and assessment and electrolysis corrosion fields. Jim is also the Chairperson for the NSW Electrolysis Committee and is an active member of the Australian Electrolysis Committee and the Australasian Corrosion Association NSW and Newcastle Branches. As Ausgrid’s ACA accredited Corrosion Technologist, Jim is responsible for managing the electrolysis corrosion aspects of Ausgrid’s electrical network.
5th August 2021
Presenter E.M. Suarez is a Ph.D. candidate at Curtin Corrosion Centre (CCC), Curtin University. She is a Microbiologist with experience in Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC), Under-deposit Corrosion (UDC), corrosion inhibition, environmental biotechnology, oil and gas biotechnology and microbiology associated with bioremediation processes.
2nd August 2021
The Aude Sapere - ACA Training Commitment Award recognises an ACA Member organisation’s ongoing commitment to the training and professional development of their staff. First awarded in 2018, it recognises the organisation that has put the most staff through ACA delivered training courses each calendar year.
29th July 2021
With the growing gas industry, gas pipelines have been developed rapidly in terms of safety, economy, efficient and on time delivery. Most of the gas pipeline have seen their design life and its reliability is at risk due to metal degradation. Such degradation can occur for few reasons, for instance stress corrosion cracking (SCC). SCC...
29th July 2021
Austenitic stainless steels (SSs) have been used as structural materials for various components in the aqueous reprocessing plants. These alloys are widely used in nuclear spent fuel reprocessing and waste management plants and the process fluid is nitric acid at temperature up to boiling point. Incorporation of oxidizing ions in nitric acid stream make the...
29th July 2021
Surface colonisation by microorganisms is a ubiquitous process in the marine environment. The formation of a mature biofilm structure, which is described as an aggregate of attached cells surrounded by extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) is the final stage of colonisation. In this form, bacteria, fungi and archaea have been implicated in several deleterious effects on...
27th July 2021
Our Association owes a great deal of its success to the great work done by over 100 volunteers at any given time. Joining one of our committees is a fantastic way to make deep ties and enact positive change across our Association. We're currently seeking to expand the membership on a range of committees including ACA Board Subcommittees, The ACA Foundation and the Young Corrosion Group Steering Committee. So if you're interested in any of these opportunities, we'd love to hear from you.
21st July 2021
Cathodic protection by impressed current or galvanic methods are in common use for the protection of corrosion in steel structures such as pipes, tanks, wharves and bridges. Both methods of cathodic protection are electrical processes that involve voltages and currents being introduced into the structures. Occasionally these facilities are situated in hazardous locations involving explosive...
21st July 2021
Continuous Fabric Maintenance (FM) is crucial for uninterrupted operations on off-shore oil and gas platforms. A primary FM goal is managing corrosion onset across the platform surface. Currently, physical field inspections are conducted to detect and classify corrosion. These processes are subjective, costly, time-consuming, and labour-intensive. As such, they tend to be sparse in nature...
21st July 2021
To investigate the corrosion resistance of overlapping layers between Al-5Mg thermal spray coating and heavy-duty coating, this study aims to clarify the deterioration behaviours of the cases with different boundary connection modes. The linear and ribbon defects were introduced to specimens, and the accelerated corrosion tests were performed. Besides, a laser focus measuring system was...
21st July 2021