Corrosion Control Through Organic Coatings

Ole Øystein Knudsen received his MSc in chemical engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1990, and his PhD in 1998 from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) with a thesis on cathodic disbonding. Since 1998, he has been working with research on coating degradation and corrosion at SINTEF. In 2008, he also became an Adjunct Professor at NTNU, where he teaches courses on protective coatings. Dr. Knudsen lives in Trondheim. Amy Forsgren received her chemical engineering education at the University of Cincinnati (USA) in 1986. She then did research in coatings for the paper industry for three years before moving to Detroit. Michigan. While there, she spent 6 years in anticorrosion coatings research at Ford Motor Company, before returning to Sweden in 1996 to lead the protective coatings program at the Swedish Corrosion Institute. She is now working in the water and wastewater industry at Xylem Inc. (formerly ITT Water & Wastewater). Mrs. Forsgren lives in Stockholm with her family.

Introduction. Protection Mechanisms of Organic Coatings. Generic Types of Anticorrosion Coatings. Corrosion-Protective Pigments. Waterborne Coatings. Powder Coatings. Blast Cleaning and Other Heavy Surface Pretreatments. Abrasive Blasting and Heavy-Metal Contamination. Chemical Surface Pretreatments. Adhesion and Barrier Properties of Protective Coatings. Weathering and Aging of Paint. Degradation of Paint by Corrosion. Duplex Coatings - Organic Coatings in Combination with Metal Coatings. Corrosion Testing — Background and Theoretical Considerations. Corrosion Testing — Practice.