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Corrosion
The term corrosion means unwanted oxidation of a substance with oxygen. Most water pipes are metal pipes and corrosion occurs in all such pipes if appropriate measures are not taken. In the industry, above all in the case of process water, corresponding conditioning systems and materials are used to avoid corrosion. In most cases however, corrosion is a very widespread problem. There are very many reasons for such corrosion but listing them all at this point would exceed the bounds of this document and so we shall list only the two most widespread types: corrosion owing to stagnant water and corrosion owing to unsaturated, aggressive water. In both cases, the water or the oxygen dissolved in the water attacks the metals of which the pipes or machines are made. This results in rust or copper oxide etc. after a certain time. The incipient corrosion roughens the surfaces which speeds up the entire process even more. Iron or copper can then be detected first in the water and, over the course of time, corrosion may clog up the pipes to such an extent that leakage ultimately occurs and the pipes need to be replaced. Merus is capable of counteracting such simple forms of a corrosion process, stopping it and even reversing it. There are a lot of very special types of corrosion, especially not caused by water, but by ingredients of either a product, or hydrocarbon. Such cases have to be looked on individually. And there might be needed to setup a special project to make trails and special monitoring. However it is always worth to make a trial, Merus has for instance very good experience if it come to corrosion caused by SRB, which would have looked from theoretical point of view impossible, but worked in reality very well.
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