moving to corrosion job
moving to corrosion job
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Dear experts,
I'm about to move to a corrosion engineer position in refinery/petrochemical plant in 2 months. My background is in water-wastewater area with some experience with corrosion in cooling and steam circuits. I feel very much attracted to the new job.
I'd like to ask you for help in identifying what I need to learn to prepare for the job and what I have to learn once I start working there.
So far I've these topics where I'm lacking the knowledge:
- materials, metals used in petroleum industry
- specific chemical processes that I will deal with (I will be working in ethylene unit)
- corrosion mechanisms specific for the process
- standards used for monitoring corrosion (plant uses RBI, NACE procedures)
- corrosion monitoring equipment
- corrosion prevention techniques
I know, it's a lot :)
Can you please tell me what you consider important? Where should I focus in first weeks in my new job? Is detailed knowledge of the production unit, (e.g. walking with outside operators) crucial to do the job right?
Thank you in advance,
springrise
I'm about to move to a corrosion engineer position in refinery/petrochemical plant in 2 months. My background is in water-wastewater area with some experience with corrosion in cooling and steam circuits. I feel very much attracted to the new job.
I'd like to ask you for help in identifying what I need to learn to prepare for the job and what I have to learn once I start working there.
So far I've these topics where I'm lacking the knowledge:
- materials, metals used in petroleum industry
- specific chemical processes that I will deal with (I will be working in ethylene unit)
- corrosion mechanisms specific for the process
- standards used for monitoring corrosion (plant uses RBI, NACE procedures)
- corrosion monitoring equipment
- corrosion prevention techniques
I know, it's a lot :)
Can you please tell me what you consider important? Where should I focus in first weeks in my new job? Is detailed knowledge of the production unit, (e.g. walking with outside operators) crucial to do the job right?
Thank you in advance,
springrise





RE: moving to corrosion job
RE: moving to corrosion job
RE: moving to corrosion job
RE: moving to corrosion job
Yes, oh dear god, yes. Walk the units, talk to the operators, look inside the heaters, get a feeling how they do their rounds, find out what's wrong on the drawings, what's lined up that shouldn't be, are pumps cavitating that shouldn't be (possible impeller damage), are operators pulling bits of packing out of pump strainers and not telling anyone, is instrumentation and bleeders getting plugged all the time?
There's a lot of stuff that you won't get from a thousand hours of staring at drawings that ten minutes with the operators will get you.
Nathan Brink