Monitoring biofilm formation in a brackish water cooled power plant environment

NACE - International Corrosion Conference Series

Volumn 1997-March, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Licina, George J ^a   Nekoksa, George ^b  

^a STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b Corrosion Failure Analysis and Control ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Brackish water; Electrochemical methods; Microbiologically influenced corrosion; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILMS; COOLING; COOLING WATER; COPPER ALLOYS; CORROSION RATE; ELECTRIC LINES; LOCALIZED CORROSION; MONITORING; WATER COOLING SYSTEMS; WATERWORKS;

BRACKISH WATER; COOLING WATER SYSTEMS; COPPER BASE ALLOYS; CORROSION MEASUREMENTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROBE; MICROBIOLOGICALLY INFLUENCED CORROSIONS; OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE;

ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION;

EID: 1942418139     PISSN: 03614409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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