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Committee Phil Dent – Bodycote David Howarth – Lloyd’s Register Robin Jacob - Corrosion Consultancy Robin Oakley – QinetiQ Matthew Peet – CAPCIS Keith Stokes - DSTL Barry Torrance – Aish Technologies Jean Tuck – MCF Secretariat Clive Tuck – Langley Alloys, Meighs Ltd Members & Guests Matthew Allen - CAPCIS Horst-Friedrich Arendt - ex-Bundeswehr Technical Centre (guest speaker) Matthew Barwick – DML (Devonport) |
Peter Cawley - Imperial College (guest speaker) R Dawson - Lloyd’s Register John Fowler - Rolls Royce Dennis Greaves - WSA, MoD Ben Hooker – DML (Devonport) Gavin Jewell – Corrosion Control Services Ltd Mike Lawrence - KBR Chi Lee - TWI Hang Jackie Meng - University of Leeds (guest speaker) Richard Perkins – Aish Technologies Carol Powell - CDA Stephen White – QinetiQ Jian-Zhong Zhang - Lloyd’s Register
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Chris Amon – Aker Kvaerner |
Brent
Knox-Holmes - Petreco |
The meeting was opened by the Chairman, Clive Tuck
1. MCF
NEWS
1.1 The Chairman began by welcoming new MCF members: Matthew Allen of CAPCIS, who had joined through the conference, and Matthew Barwick and Ben Hooker of Devonport. Dennis Greaves of the Warship Support Agency was to be their new contact with MCF.
He also apologised on behalf of the planned concluding speaker for the day, Sheelagh Campbell of Portsmouth University, who had been prevented from coming by flash flood on the railway line from Portsmouth.
1.2 The Secretariat presented the financial statements, including those for the Edinburgh conference in June. These were available for those who wanted one. Apart from those companies who had joined for the conference, Devonport Dockyards (DML) had also joined. One company had left (Vistar/Noel Village Steel Founders). All others had paid their 2006 subscription. She reminded the membership that CPD certificates were always available after meetings for those who wished to use these to build up their CPD portfolio.
2.1 ‘Low
Signature Impressed Current Cathodic Protection Systems - Recent Developments -
Future Concepts’, Barry Torrance (Aish Technologies Limited)
2.2
Keynote Lecture:
‘Application
of Physical Scale Modelling to the Evaluation of a ship’s ICCP Systems’,
Horst-Friedrich Arendt (ex-Bundeswehr Technical Centre for Ships
and Naval Weapons, Germany)
3.
OPEN FORUM.
3.1 Robin Oakley (QinetiQ) wished to canvass the members about the type of marine corrosion test capabilities and equipment they feel are required in the UK. This relates to planning the future strategy of his corrosion team and laboratories. It was felt that a list of equipment available at all member companies’ test laboratories would be useful before this question could be answered. Any member company with a test lab is invited to send a list of the equipment available to the Secretariat who will circulate it to members and add it to the MCF website. This will bring additional publicity, and enable members to see where equipment is available, and what is lacking.
3.2 Report on second year of MCF-led collaborative project on Erosion-Corrosion, Hang ‘Jackie’ Meng, PhD student (Leeds University), supervisors: Prof. Anne Neville & Dr. Xinming Hu
This presentation contained an overview of the work done so far, and the plans for the final project year.
4.
TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS (part 2):
4.1
‘Long
range guided wave inspection for oil pipelines and offshore risers’, Prof
Peter Cawley (Imperial College, London)
The Chairman closed the meeting at approx. 3:30 pm