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Corrosion Sets Us Back 1.8 Trillion Euros Per Year

The Dutch Fyra trains are marked return to sender. The replacements of the Dutch and Belgian Sea King helicopters are corroding. In 2014 the Antwerp “boerentoren” (farmers’ tower) was equipped with a cathodic protection system as the steel support structure was showing signs of corrosion. In 2011, lighting poles along the Belgian part of the E19 highway broke because corrosion had done damage at the base of their masts. And what will the sea water do to the Fukushima nuclear plant?

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Is This Combustible Dust”?

BURR RIDGE (US) - Dust explosions and fires are serious hazards in the process industries that have lead to loss of life, injury to plant personnel and millions of dollars in damages. There have ...
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Sense and nonsense of social media in failure analysis

Linkedin, facebook, twitter, ecademy and likewise social media have become commonplace in our modern society. Companies that are not yet active on these platforms will unavoidably run behind their ...
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Do You Know the Burning Behavior of Your Dust?

A recent news account detailing a rapidly spreading combustible dust related fire the length of a paper machine (approximately 100 meters) in a paper mill in Menasha, Wisconsin brings to mind combu...
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Creepy Creep

Mankind has always been attracted to secrets of different kind, hidden places and escape tunnels, documents that are not intended for everyone's eyes. Some people want to hush them up, some people ...
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A solution to the traffic arrest

'The port of Antwerp and the port of Rotterdam are preparing investments in additional pipeline facilities, including pipelines between both ports'. 'In the delta of Eems (The Netherlands) a pipel...

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