Over the past 12 years, Midland Corrosion Services says it has investigated numerous corrosion failures in closed heating and cooling systems in buildings including hospitals and healthcare premises, which it says ‘have resulted in expensive damages, repairs, and widespread disruption’.
With this is mind, it now offers a continuous corrosion monitoring service to keep such systems ‘in tip-top condition at all times’. The company explained: “All important system parameters which influence corrosion will be recorded and relayed to our central facilities via the GPRS network. Our corrosion experts are able to view how a customer’s system conditions are changing over time, on a ‘24/7’ basis, and, with the use of pre-set alarms, can respond to any adverse or emergency circumstances – such as system leaks, pressure drops, or the onset of corrosion – before significant corrosion damage occurs. Parameters monitored include:
• Dissolved oxygen levels.
• Pressure.
• Make-up water supply.
• Conductivity.
• pH.
• Galvanic current.
• Crevice corrosion.
• Temperature.
