DACCO SCI, INC.

Corrosion Engineering · Materials Technology · Electrochemistry

SUMMARY OF SERVICES

Corrosion Science and Engineering

 

 

Field Studies

  • Site Evaluation

  • Soil Testing

  • Stray Currents

  • Nondestructive Inspection

  • Leak Detection

  • Storage Tank Remediation

  • Pipeline Inspection

  • Above ground

  • Inside pipes

Design Services

  • Computer Aided Design
  • Corrosion Protection Schemes, including Cathodic Protection
  • Materials Selection
  • Coatings Selection
  • Cost Analysis
  • Installation Inspection

Design of cathodic protection systems for a tank farm

Research and Development

  • Electrochemical Corrosion Evaluation
  • Corrosion Inhibition
  • In-Situ Corrosion Sensor
  • Moisture Sensor for Composites
  • Surface Treatment Development 
  • Coatings Development
Inspection of painted metals with in-situ corrosion sensor

 

Accelerated Environmental Testing

Testing of specimens in salt fog

  • Coatings Screening/Evaluation 

  • Surface Treatment Screening/Evaluation

  • Evaluation with In-Situ Corrosion Sensor

    • Comparison with ambient/service exposure

    • Early detection of degradation

    • Mechanism determination

     

Adhesive Bonding

Evaluation of surface treatments using a wedge test

Surface Treatments Development and Evaluation

  • High performance treatments
  • Environmentally benign processing

Failure Analysis

  • Locus of failure identification
  • Failure mechanisms determination

Surface Contamination Evaluation

  • Detection
  • Effects
  • Cleaning

Materials/Surface Characterization

  • Surface and Interface Chemistry/Contamination
  • Organic Analysis
  • Low-level Metals Analysis

x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) as a surface analysis tool

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Services

Collaborators

 

Corrosion Sensors Plant-Based Inhibitors Field Activities Importance of Corrosion

Personnel

 C.M.  Dacres G.D. Davis Links

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14 December 2005
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