Examples of Some Systems Vulnerable to MIC

It is not a rare accident to meet people who, despite having no blood connection, look so similar to each other. 

No matter how different such individuals may be in other details of their lives, the most interesting features are that they look so much like each other. These similar, yet, different characteristics can also be seen in many industrial systems and their problems, especially if MIC is the problem. 

As we shall see, the proposed cyclic mechanisms of MIC are very similar in a buried pipeline to accelerated low water corrosion of steel piles of a jetty or wharf. Although there are many aspects of biocorrosion not yet clear, some rules of thumb can still be developed to allow estimating the vulnerability of a system 

How two different individuals may look alike (source www.marshal-modem.org) 

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