Material Selection

“It’s stainless steel, it shouldn’t rust.” This is often the kind of statements heard from individuals when discussing a failure of process piping or equipment. This is also an indication of how little is actually understood about stainless steel and the applications where it is used.   For years the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries have used stainless steels in their process piping systems. Most of the time stainless steel components provide satisfactory results. Occasionally a catastrophic failure will occur.

In order to understand proper material selection, it's important to understand what causes failures.  Our material selection seminars are an all day event utilizing many well known industry leaders who understand corrosion, welding, alloy alternatives and surface finish capabilities offering open forum educational venue based on scientific data.

The following topics will be discussed in detail:

1.       Five Forms of Corrosion  

• General Corrosion
• Galvanic Corrosion
  • Pitting
  • Crevice
• Intergranular Corrosion
• Stress Corrosion Cracking

2.       Stainless Steel – What is it?

• What makes Stainless Steel
• What makes Stainless Steel corrosion resistant?
• Material rankings by Molybdenum content and PREN* Number

3.       Material Selection

• Seven (7) steps in selecting the proper alloy

4.       Surface Finish for Stainless Steel and Higher Alloys

• How good is RA?
• How Electropolish works
• Optimizing Surfaces
• Rouge/Bacteria control

5.       Field Remediation

• Electro-chemical cleaning
• On-site electropolishing

We are also able to offer *5 Continuing Education Unit Credits available through Missouri State University to participants of the above course.

 Call us today to discuss bringing this event to your facility for your employees or customers and ask about our Material Selection & Finishing Seminar.

Ph: 877-823-7911 or E-Mail: kenk@Ultracleanep.com

*pitting resistance equivalent number