Dr. William M. Cox, Director and Principal Consultant, Corrosion Management Limited, UK

Biography: William Cox is Director and Principal Consultant at Corrosion Management Limited, and is based in Rugby, UK. Dr. Cox has a BSc in Metallurgy from the University of Aston in Birmingham, and an MSc and PhD in Corrosion from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

During the early part of his career, Dr. Cox was involved in the Steel industry with the Weir Group, and then in Diamond mining and Copper extraction with Anglo American Corporation. He joined the Corrosion and Protection Centre Industrial Services (CAPCIS), UMIST (University of Manchester) in 1981 and was Director of Operations and then Managing Director of Capcis March Ltd., one of the first UMIST Venture companies, which was launched to develop and exploit advanced on-line corrosion sensing technologies.

He founded Corrosion Management Ltd in 1994 and for more than twenty years he has specialized in the application of advanced corrosion monitoring and then Risk Based Inspection and Risk Based Maintenance technologies in the process industries.

His specialist area is the application of advanced on-line corrosion surveillance instrumentation in Power Generation, Oil and Gas Production, Refining, Petrochemical and Chemical Processing, Nuclear, Aerospace and Civil Engineering industries. Other activities include Failure Investigation and Litigation work.

Corrosion Management has project activities in Europe, North America and Pacific East Asia.
• Dr. Cox is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Corrosion and has been a Professional Member since 1980. He is a Member of Council and was a Founder Member of the ICorr Training and Certification Governing Board, on which he served from 1998 to 2018. He was President of the Institute of Corrosion from 1996 to 1998.
• He is a NACE Fellow and has been a Member of NACE since 1981. He served as Chairman of the NACE International Relations Strategy Operations Committee from 2001 to 2005.
• He is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and served as a Member of Council of IoM3 from 1996 to 2003.
• He is a Fellow of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing and a former Member of the PCN Certification Management Committee.
• He is a Chartered Engineer

Speech Title: Solving Corrosion Problems on Coal-to-Chemical Gasification Systems and Waste-to-Energy Boilers
Abstract: Coal-to-chemical conversion based on the Lurgi-type gasification systems are a long-established approach to the exploitation of fossil fuel reserves, very often for strategic National benefit. However, in certain instances, extreme corrosion attack may occur on the thick-walled gasifier vessels and/or in the downstream processing systems.
Similarly, waste-to-energy combustion equipment has been a popular and profitable approach to the utilization of waste streams to produce high-grade heat and electricity. Unfortunately, such boilers also can sustain unexpectedly high rates of corrosion attack that results in frequent unscheduled downtime, a requirement for replacement disposal capacity and lost revenue.
This paper considers the underlying causes of such damage and describes successful approaches that have been employed to investigate and overcome these issues.