Corrosion
Chemistry assignment
Introduction:
Throughout modern day society metals are constantly used, in fact mankind has been heavily dependent on metals for the last several hundred years. But the science behind metals has only been discovered in recent years and has now become known to people that we simply could not live without them. Metals make up around 80% of the elements (currently discovered). They are used in everyday items that society depends on, such as: cars, re-bars for building, window frames, kettles, fridges and many more things. These are the most basic uses of metals, but the need for metals also enters a chemical level, they are massively important in chemistry. The aim of this report is to determine what the best prevention method of corrosion will be in the ships in two different conditions; cold, deep water and warm, shallow water. It will also analyse these prevention costs and justify which prevention method would be the best (environmentally and financially) or if it is simply better to allow the ships to fully corrode and clean up the spill afterwards; so basically prevention or cure?
This report can be quite limited in the sense that it is simply based on research, there is no physical evidence from the authors own experiments to support the claims. It is all simply based on the research of similar previous scenarios, and runs on the basis that these ships will corrode in the same ways the ships in this investigation will.
Once this investigation is complete, this report will then be able to advice people as to which kind of approach should be taken to solving this problem of the sunken ships. This could potentially lead to helping governments or companies as to how they should react to this environmental problem, ideally saving the environment from damage.
Metals are catalyst and speed up chemically reactions, scientists use metals for this purpose frequently to experiment with things at an accelerated rate. Metals allow things
Introduction:
Throughout modern day society metals are constantly used, in fact mankind has been heavily dependent on metals for the last several hundred years. But the science behind metals has only been discovered in recent years and has now become known to people that we simply could not live without them. Metals make up around 80% of the elements (currently discovered). They are used in everyday items that society depends on, such as: cars, re-bars for building, window frames, kettles, fridges and many more things. These are the most basic uses of metals, but the need for metals also enters a chemical level, they are massively important in chemistry. The aim of this report is to determine what the best prevention method of corrosion will be in the ships in two different conditions; cold, deep water and warm, shallow water. It will also analyse these prevention costs and justify which prevention method would be the best (environmentally and financially) or if it is simply better to allow the ships to fully corrode and clean up the spill afterwards; so basically prevention or cure?
This report can be quite limited in the sense that it is simply based on research, there is no physical evidence from the authors own experiments to support the claims. It is all simply based on the research of similar previous scenarios, and runs on the basis that these ships will corrode in the same ways the ships in this investigation will.
Once this investigation is complete, this report will then be able to advice people as to which kind of approach should be taken to solving this problem of the sunken ships. This could potentially lead to helping governments or companies as to how they should react to this environmental problem, ideally saving the environment from damage.
Metals are catalyst and speed up chemically reactions, scientists use metals for this purpose frequently to experiment with things at an accelerated rate. Metals allow things