Structural Degradation Landscaping Review for Net-Zero 2050
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The final NEIMME Lecture of our 2020-2021 series will be given by Dr Bill Hedges (President of the Institute of Corrosion) on reviewing the key structural material degradation problems and mechanisms that present a challenge for infrastructure.
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YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Xbh_74Pd4
Lecture Synopsis:
In January 2021 the Royce Institute for advanced materials, working in collaboration with Frazer-Nash Consultancy and funded by the EPSRC, began a review of material degradation problems covering on and off-shore wind power generation; carbon capture, use, and storage (CCS); nuclear fission power generation; transportation technologies (air, road, rail and sea); and hydrogen production and usage (end to end including hydrogen substitutes such as ammonia). The aim of this being to identify the key problems in this area and to highlight key areas where UK research and industry can lead in addressing these challenges.
About the Speaker:
Bill is an independent corrosion consultant and the current President of the Institute of Corrosion (ICorr). He has a B.Sc. in chemistry and a Ph.D. in electrochemistry (lithium batteries) from the University of Southampton, UK and spent time as a researcher in the Bioengineering department at Oxford University, UK. Bill has 34 years’ experience in corrosion science, integrity management and engineering and has spent the last 30 years in the oil & gas industry working for Exxon and BP. He was with BP for 24 years and left in 2020 to form his own consultancy business. His final role was as the Chief Engineer for Materials and Integrity Management. He has spent half of his career working in central engineering functions and half in operational locations in many countries worldwide with specific assignments in London, Houston, Trinidad and Alaska. These assignments have given him practical experience of integrity issues in onshore, offshore, deep-water, tropical, desert and arctic environments. Bill is a Chartered Engineer (CEng.), Chartered Chemist (CChem) and a Fellow of both the Institute of Corrosion (FICorr) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He has held director roles with the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Foundation and the NACE Europe board. He has published 38 papers and in 2009 was awarded the NACE Fellow honour (FNACE).
