APOLOGIES  

Apologies having been received from the Chairman (Clive Tuck, Meighs), the meeting was chaired by David Howarth (Lloyds Register) who opened the meeting, held in conjunction with IMarEST.

 1.   MCF NEWS 

1.1        The Secretariat presented the list and topics of forthcoming meetings.  She also reminded the membership that CPD certificates were available after the meeting for those who wished to use these meetings to build up their CPD portfolio.  Most members had now paid their 2004 subscriptions, and financial statements were available for those who wanted one.

1.2          MCF Company Sponsored Project Update: Oct 04.  The Chairman read out the following update:

 A multi-company sponsored project has been set up by the Marine Corrosion Forum with Leeds University to commence later this month. The subject will be an investigation to determine the influence of key environmental factors on erosion/corrosion of a variety of marine engineering alloys specified for use under high flow rate conditions.  

Seven companies are currently involved: DSTL, Lloyds, Langley Alloys, MOD Sea Technology Group, Noel Village, Weir Engineering Services and Weir Pumps. 

Professor Anne Neville will be the University supervisor and a student has been identified who is currently finishing an MSc degree at Imperial College. 

A meeting has been arranged for representatives of the companies involved to meet with Anne and the student to outline details of the project. This will take place on Friday 19^th November at Leeds.  If any other company is interested in joining this project, please contact the Secretariat.

  2.      TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS (part 1):

 2.1  ‘Problems on Corrosion in Marine Piping Systems’, Jian-Zhong Zhang & David Howarth (Lloyds Register EMEA)  

2.2   Keynote Lecture: ‘Corrosion Management’, Derek Milliams (Advanced Corrosion Management Services Ltd)

3.      OPEN FORUM.

 3.1     John Fowler (Rolls Royce) had recently attended an excellent meeting and had sent the following details: 

' Magnesium and marine applications are not usually mentioned in the same breath, but the push for lightweight fuel efficient vessels means that radical approaches to material selection must be applied, particularly in Naval vessels.  Magnesium Elektron in Manchester have developed a new material Elektron 21 which could result in significant weight reductions in some marine engineering applications.'

Nick Jeal from Magnesium-Elektron had agreed to give the same presentation to the MCF in January 05.

4.    TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS  (part 2):

 4.1  ‘The Vagaries of Corrosion Testing’, Phil Dent & Chris Fowler (Bodycote Materials Testing)

 4.2   ‘Modelling of Marine Cathodic Protection Systems’, David Tighe-Ford (Royal Military College, Cranfield University)