Microbially influenced corrosion metallic materials

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The main purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of present knowledge of the mechanisms of microbially influenced corrosion on common constructional materials. This review includes both metallic and nonmetallic materials. The reason for including nonmetallic materials is that biodegradation occurs on these materials and that they are widely used for constmction purposes. Because detailed knowledge in the fields of microbiology and biochemistry is necessary in order to understand the mechanisms of microbially influenced corrosion, considerable space has been devoted to a general description of microorganisms and to a... 

Metallic materials are an important group of construction materials. Microbially influenced corrosion may occur for these materials for many industrial applications, as listed in Table 1 [27]. Microbially induced corrosion of metallic materials does not involve any new form of corrosion. Thus it is necessary to discuss the electrochemical nature of corrosion briefly before continuing with the mechanisms of MIC for different construction metals. 

Microbiologically influenced corrosion is defined by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers as any form of corrosion that is influenced by the presence and/or activities of microorganisms. Although MIC appears to many humans to be a new phenomenon, it is not new to the microbes themselves. Microbial transformation of metals in their elemental and various mineral forms has been an essential part of material cycling on earth for billions of years. Some forms of metals such as reduced iron and manganese serve as energy sources for microbes, while oxidized forms of some metals can substitute for... 

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