The Corrosion of Condenser Tubes

Abstract

THE Seventh Report to the Corrosion Research Committee of the Institute of Metals (J. Inst. Metals, 32, 81; 1924) rendered it increasingly clear that corrosion (and resistance to corrosion) depends to a very great extent on the behaviour and properties of films, consisting chiefly of corrosion products, which form more or less completely on the surface of the metal. The Eighth Report, recently published, carries this aspect of corrosion considerably further so far as one type of wastage is concerned, namely, the ‘impingement attack’ produced by rapidly moving sea-water, particularly where free air is present, or where intermittent cavitation occurs.