A few years ago the word “corrosion” was not used with familiarity by most of those people charged with the maintenance of underground plant facilities.
- Rusting usually manifested itself in “red water” problems.
- Pitting in boilers was recognized as a treatment inadequacy.
- Leaking in underground piping was thought to be due to a peculiar set of circumstances involving the metallurgy of the pipe and some unique and, hoped for isolated soil condition.
