Serving worldwide industry
with a focus on the future

Corrmet Engineering Services, Inc., is an independent engineering and testing laboratory focused on meeting the total quality requirements of today’s industry.

Corrmet provides engineering consulting and technical services, and comprehensive testing programs involving engineering materials, protective coatings, and industrial chemical evaluations. A substantial portion of our activities is involved with product development programs with a variety of industrial and consumer applications.

Legal investigation, technical and project consulting, root cause analysis and expert witness services are available to insurance companies and law firms involving metallic and non-metallic failures and products liability.

MIC Corrosion Attack

Experience where it counts.
Our experienced professional staff consists of corrosion, metallurgical, chemical, materials and coating engineers, many of whom are registered, with multiple years of broad experience. They are acknowledged experts in their respective field or discipline. Associates experienced in other disciplines are used as may be required.

Heavy scale build-up in domestic water
supply contributed to severe corrosion
attack

Corrmet Engineering Services, Inc., provides its clients specialized technical services in the following areas:

• Metalurgy and Failure Analysis
• Corrosion Control
• Materials Selection
• Coatings/Linings/FRP Technology
• Expert Witness

• Corrosion Testing
• Materials Testing/evaluation
• H₂S testing Facilities
• Coatings/Linings Evaluation
• Product Validation/Reliability
• Inhibitor Evaluation
• Environmental Testing
• Contract Research/Development

• Engineering Projects
• Process Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Standards/Specifications

• Oil and Gas Production
• Chemical and Petrochemical
• Pipelines
• Petroleum Refining
• Hydrocarbon Facilities
• Transportation
• Government Agencies

An understanding that timing is always essential.

Turnaround is one of the most critical issues faced by our clients. A well coordinated service assures timely response on all projects. Corrmet engineers and technical services supports are available around the clock to meet our clients needs. Testing is conducted in accordance with standards such as ASTM, NACE, API, AWS, ASME, as well as other established client and industrial standards.

The ability to provide turnkey solutions.

Experience is the key to providing complete solution to the problems at any level of service clients require. Corrmet recognizes the needs of each client company. As a consequence all services are tailored to individual companies needs.

The primary focus is to help you find a solution to your problem that reduces project time and expense.

Involvement that anticipates market and industry change.

Corrmet Professional staffs are actively involved in industry, including participation on many standards development committees. This gives us the capability to provide our clients with up-to-date technical information and assistance.

Corrosion Services

• Plant and process corrosion troubleshooting
• Corrosion control audits/reliability assessment
• High temperature corrosion study
• Material selection for:
• Process plant
• Plant improvement
• Microbiologically induced corrosion (MIC)

Metallurgical Services

• Failure analysis and prevention
• Fracture mechanics study
• On-site incident investigation
• Mechanical components evaluation
• Fire and explosion damage assessment
• Product liability and legal expert

Materials Test Services

• Physical testing/chemical analysis
• Hardness - Micro, Rockwell, Brinell
• Metallographic examination/study
• Scanning electron microscope (SEM)
• Energy dispersive X-ray (EDS) analysis
• Quality control and assurance programs
• Photography and documentation

Protective Coating Services

The engineering consulting and testing division of Corrmet offers services to both manufacturers and users throughout the coating industry.

• Coating/Lining material evaluation/selection and recommendation
• Coating failure analysis/expert witness
• Specification/ performance/survey/inspection
• Project Management

Coating/FRP Test Services

• Salt spray/humidity
• QUV Accelerated Weathering Test
• Varied physical and chemical testing
• Adhesion test
• Cathodic disbondment
• IR Scan
• Energy dispersive X-ray (EDS) analysis
• Atomic Absorption
• Autoclave Testing
• FRP Test/Evaluation

EDS SPECTRUM

Corrosion Research
Corrmet facility has numerous specialized custom-made autoclaves for simulation of a corrosive environment. High pressure to 10,000 psi, high temperature to 900 °F with pressurized gases such as H2S, CO2 and CH4 and various liquids.
Corrmet has several rotary agitated autoclaves to mix the contents of a vessel while under pressure & temperature

Inhibitor Evaluation
Low temperature wheel test. high temperature, high pressure wheel test (500°F, 10,000 psi), Static and Dynamic thermal stability, Solubilities test, Emulsification test, Acid inhibitor test, Side stream testing (on- site investigation). Electro-chemical technique to evaluate performance of inhibitors. High pressure, high temperature electrochemical studies of chemicals, corrosion resistance of alloys and coating in a variety of environments.
Several rotating autoclaves are available for electro-chemical study of inhibitors, velocity effects and erosion corrosion.

Testing of Steel for Wet H₂S Services
The evaluation of steels for wet H2S services is one of the specialized services that is routinely performed for the steel mills, pipeline, and refining industries, and pressure vessel fabricators. Corrmet has been selected by the oil and gas industry to perform a series of full scale tests for evaluation of HIC resistance of plate steels for pressure vessels, pipeline steels, and forged steel fittings.
Testing includes:
* Hydrogen induced cracking (HIC) per NACE TM0284-96 in synthetic sea water solution or TMO177 solution.
*Sulfide stress cracking (SSC) per NACE TM0177-96, tensile, bend beam, C-ring and SOHIC.
* SSC test per ASTM G-39 (bent-beam stress-corrosion) using either TM0284 or TM0177solution. *Elastomer compatibility tests ( API, ASTM, NACE ).

Corrosion Products/ Scale Analysis
* Energy dispersive X-ray (EDS )
* X-ray diffraction (XRD)
* Wet chemical analysis
* Lead and heavy metals analysis in soil, sludge, spent abrasives, paint scraping and chips.

Electrochemical cell for
polarization experiments