A Short Journey to the Realm of Corrosion

Abstract

The main idea of this chapter is to deal with the principles and basics of corrosion, to an extent that will be necessary for understanding microbial corrosion. In this chapter, we very briefly touched on some important theoretical elements of electrochemical corrosion such as how corrosion can be forecast (by using Pourbaix diagrams) and how fast it can happen (by using anodic and cathodic polarisation curves). The reason for selecting electrochemical corrosion, and not other types of corrosion such as high temperature corrosion, to be explained in this chapter is that microbial corrosion happens in environments where water is available. This will make microbial corrosion an example of electrochemical corrosion.