In any industry where water meets steel, corrosion is an underestimated threat - and a very expensive one too: corrosion costs for the European region alone amount to €500bn (DNV-GL report). Moreover, there is no general approach followed in the industry to assess the risk of corrosion and prevent it from happening. Such a methodology, supported by thorough corrosion monitoring and proper management, might lead to cost reductions of 15-30%.
In this context, the interreg project SOCORRO aims to provide companies with an independent means to
assess the corrosion risks in their installations in sea water, to
increase their awareness and to have them take appropriate preventive
actions. To this end, we created a simple, rapid, in situ sensor system
able to monitor a range of environmental markers over time to determine
the risk of corrosion of steel submerged in water, as well as a
statistical method to mine these data for an overall corrosion risk
estimate – in short, the SOCORRO system.
In this project, we will implement and demonstrate this whole set-up in
several industrial case studies (wind turbines at sea, water
desalination/sanitation, ship’s hulls and ballast tanks, harbour sheet
piles, process water) and show the economic opportunities. In addition,
we will augment the statistical analysis with an intuitive, practical
dashboard tool to present the outflow of information and to convey that
risk to the end users.
A meeting is planned on February the 9th
of 2023 in the afternoon at Université de Lille - Cité scientifique - Batiment Chevreul at Villeneuve d'Ascq - France.
This is the occasion to present/discover the project and bring the academical and inductrial partners together.
Participation is free, but registration (below) is mandatory.
A detailed programme of the afternoon is given below.
The conference will be held face-to-face, but it will be made possible to attend by videoconference.
If you have any question, feel free to contact : David Balloy (david.balloy@univ-lille.fr), Ingrid Proriol Serre (ingrid.proriol-serre@univ-lille.fr), Cyril Nicard (cyril.nicard@univ-lille.fr)
