Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology
Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology
Researchers at the Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology (ICMT) have the unique capability to tackle one of today’s biggest challenges: preserving the integrity of major energy supply lines. Corrosion in oil and gas production and transportation infrastructure can cause catastrophic failure, environmental devastation and has large economic consequences.
Experts at ICMT partner with the world’s leading oil and gas, chemical, and engineering companies to predict and resolve their corrosion problems to help keep oil and gas production and transportation efficient, reliable, and safe. Through a unique combination of basic and applied research, and solution-based development, our engineers and technologists create for good.
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ResearchOur studies of pipeline flow systems and chemical processes involving common corrosive elements helps maintain pipeline integrity and protect the environment from catastrophic pipeline failure.
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PeopleLed by Dr. Srdjan Nesic, we operate six large project teams comprised of doctoral and master’s candidates, postdoctoral researchers, project engineers and techs, and undergrad students.
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Facilities & InstrumentationOur $5 million lab facility features the unique capacity to generate a variety of flow regimes to simulate complex corrosion environments seen in real pipelines.
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SponsorsThe support of our strategic partners is critical to ensuring that our research in multiphase flow design and corrosion prediction continues.
ICMT News
Recent Publications
2021
Influence of acetic acid on the integrity and protectiveness by an iron carbonate (FeCO3) corrosion product layer
V. Fajardo, M. Eslami, Y-S. Choi, B. Brown, and S. Nesic, Corrosion, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 97-111, 2021.
Sulfate reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris caused severe microbiologically influenced corrosion of zinc and galvanized steel
D. Wang, T. Unsal, S. Kumseranee, S. Punpruk, M. Mohamed, M. Saleh, and T. Gu, International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, Vol. 157, pp. 105160, 2021.
Calculation of mass transfer coefficients for corrosion prediction in two-phase gas-liquid pipe flow
L. D. Paolinelli and S. Nesic, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 165, pp. 120689, 2021.
2020
Disintegration of surfactant micelles at metal-water interfaces promotes their strong adsorption
H. Singh, and S. Sharma, J. Phys. Chem. B, Vol. 124, pp. 2262, 2020.
Free energy profiles of adsorption of surfactant micelles at metal-water interfaces
H. Singh, and S. Sharma, Mol. Simulat., Vol. 46(12), pp. 1, 2020.
A quantitatively accurate theory to predict adsorbed configurations of asymmetric surfactant molecules on polar surfaces
X. Ko, and S. Sharma, J. Phys. Chem. B, Vol. 124(26), pp. 5517, 2020.