Friday 3 July 2015

Importance of Corrosion Inhibitors in forest and wood processing industry

When you are in proximity of nature, you remain peaceful and serene. What about your machinery and equipment that is highly susceptible to rust and corrosion in proximity to moisture?

The forestry and wood processing industries use several huge equipment and machinery all of which is susceptible to corrosion due to various gases and water. There is also bacterial corrosion to contend with, in the natural surroundings.

The forestry and wood processing industries, therefore, use corrosion inhibitors to tackle this problem. The corrosion inhibitors are chemicals that control the onset of rust and another kind of corrosion, leading to the damage to the structure of your machinery.

Corrosion is one of the largest problems faced by many industries other than the one discussed above. The oil rigs, where the whole machinery is inside salt water, which is the major corrosion inducer, and all those other industries that involve water based work, face the problem persistently.

The advent of chemicals like corrosion inhibitors have helped such industries to deal with the problem successfully. The chemical compound present in the inhibitor makes the environment nearer to the machinery immune to corrosion setting agents. Usually, corrosion in metals like Iron or copper is set due to the reaction of the upper layer of these metals with water, air (oxygen in the air) or, in some cases, bacteria too. The corrosion inhibitors form a coat to prevent the onset of rusting.

Unlike painting the surface of the metal to prevent corrosion, the inhibitors are added to the fluids surrounding the metal surface or to the gas in proximity to it. This way, the power of the fluid or gas to inflict injury to your equipment is considerably reduced, and thus, benefiting your industry.