Dear Colleagues,

The energy and carbon abatement sectors present an incredibly diverse and complex range of material degradation challenges.

There remains no doubt that many corrosion management challenges continue to exist for mature industries, such as oil and gas, particularly as the industry moves towards deeper wells and more aggressive environments for hydrocarbon extraction. However, as the world undergoes an energy transition, the recent increased uptake of alternative energy, such as nuclear, solar, and geothermal, and/or carbon abatement technologies, such as carbon capture and storage, have presented new challenges.

With the introduction of these low-carbon technologies, it is clear that there is a growing requirement for innovation in the context of material design and corrosion protection to enable engineering infrastructure to withstand some particularly arduous environments, whilst also maintaining affordability.

We would, therefore, like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on “Corrosion and Protection of Metals and Alloys in the Energy and Carbon Abatement Sectors: Arduous and Extreme Environments”. In the midst of the energy transition, we feel that this Special Issue is particularly timely as it acknowledges the current and rising material degradation challenges across the energy sector, as well as the requirement for development of innovative technologies in the area of corrosion control.

This Special Issue will focus on enhancing our understanding of metallic material degradation and its control in demanding environments, with particular emphasis on the energy and carbon abatement sectors. Focus will be directed towards systems that operate under conditions in which corrosion control can be particularly challenging, i.e., high temperatures, high pressures, and aggressive electrolytes.

The intention is for this Special Issue to facilitate knowledge exchange in the context of understanding, predicting, or controlling material degradation between different industrial processes, thus spawning new ideas, encouraging innovation, and promoting advancements across disciplines.

In particular, the topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• advances in materials—development of new metallic materials and material technology, with particular emphasis on understanding or evaluating a material’s performance in its envisaged environment.
• corrosion control using corrosion inhibitors—the study of the applications and mechanisms of chemical inhibitors, particularly for high-temperature (>150 °C) applications.
• corrosion in nuclear systems—encompassing light, heavy, and generation IV nuclear reactors.
• corrosion in renewables—with particular emphasis on solar and geothermal energy.
• corrosion in supercritical systems—evaluating the degradation of materials in supercritical environments, in particular supercritical carbon dioxide (as part of carbon capture and storage systems).
• development of novel techniques/methodologies to link laboratory measurements with the field—methods (in situ or laboratory) that provide an improved understanding of degradation processes and/or facilitate improved translation to the field.

Dr. Richard Barker
Dr. Frederick Pessu
Dr. James Hesketh
Dr. Daniel Burkle
Dr. Joshua Owen
Guest Editors

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