Electrochemical reaction of corrosion and its negative economic impact

Abstract

Persistent corrosion problems through hazardous chemicals and hydrocarbon are potentially harmful resulting into failure and breakdown of infrastructure in marine, oil and gas vessels, petroleum distillation plant, and chemical processing industries. Despite this unstoppable catastrophe, reduction in the amount of cost incurred by corrosion has been an effort by researcher in the field of material science to tackle. This paper addresses the major challenge of materials failure in services resulting to high cost, and the potential remedy form from several applications.