Metal corrosion is a slow process of destruction of metal objects, after chemical reactions that occur on the surface of metals, alloys, under the action of the environment. Corrosion process is influenced by a number of internal and external factors.
Internal factors are those tied to metal, such as: steel structure, surface condition, presence at surface of protection films, etc. way of processing. Usually, pure metals does not corrode, in contrast, metals that contain various impurities, such as metals that have uses in technique, the very presence of these impurities favors corrosion.
In the modern technique they are known various methods of protection against corrosion. Of these the most important and most common are:
- Choosing the appropriate materials for construction of various metal parts and equipment (especially for the chemical industry where one can find the most corrosive environments).
- Corrosion can be prevented using special substances called protease. In steel structures, the most used method of protection against corrosion is to isolate the surface material for the environment by a protective layer that can be metallic or organic
-Metallic coating can be achieved by metallization and electroplating. Metallization is the process which one may cover a metal with an alloy of the metal.Thus, if a piece of steel is covered with aluminum and it is heated to a temperature less than melting temperatures of the two metals, it will form at the surface of steel object an alloy of iron and aluminum which is resisting to corrosion well.
In the same way the iron may be covered with an iron-zinc alloy, if the iron object is held in zinc vapor.
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