Corrosion Control and Surface Finishing
Environmentally Friendly Approaches
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Standardization—Current and Future
To improve and develop industrial products and processes, a standard is always needed. Nowadays, not only for academic activities, but also for industrial ones, various standards are developed beyond borders a...
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Biofilm Control and Thoughts for the Future
Biofilms affect many industries and our daily lives. Their formation and growth processes have common essential factors, but some of their components differ from one environment to another. Biofilms have a neg...
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Introduction
Biofilms form at the interface between different phases as a result of bacterial activities. They cause many problems for industry and our daily lives. Biofilms have negative problems to solve, but also provid...
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Biofilm Usefulness
This chapter describes the usefulness of biofilms. It starts by discussing the importance of biofilms for producing electricity and the process which is known as microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology. The next ...
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Fundamentals for Biofilms
This chapter includes the fundamentals for biofilms. It starts by introducing the topics of bacteria and biofilms. Then it discusses the formation, growth, collapse, and removal of biofilms, which are the resu...
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Biofilms in Nature and Artificial Materials
This chapter presents various substrates and their capabilities for biofilm formation, taking into account influential factors like van der Waals forces, hydrophobicity, hydrophilicity, the presence of polar s...
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Detection and Evaluation of Biofilms
This chapter describes a variety of ways for detecting and evaluating biofilms. The biological methods include staining, gene analysis, and proteomics. An instrumental analysis section is available too. It int...
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Biofilm Problems and Environments
This chapter describes biofilm problems in various environments. It starts by introducing the marine environment and goes on to discuss biofilm problems like biofouling and corrosion that damage structures use...
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Animate Substrata and Biofilms
Biofilms form on natural animate substrata. For substrata discussed in this chapter, we selected plants’ surfaces and the tissues inside of human bodies. Biofilms are a result of bacterial activity. First bact...
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Laboratory Biofilm Reactors
Biofilms form at the interface between different phases in nature. To investigate biofilms and to solve practical problems, we have to reproduce the phenomena in laboratories. To achieve this purpose, we need ...
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The Application of Corrosion Protection
As described in detail already, environmentally friendly technology is very important for sustainable developments in the future. Surface Finishing industries are facing a critical point, since many of them ha...
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Industrial Surface Treatments
Treatments to the surfaces of metals as well as other items are very important in most industries. They are used for many purposes including decoration, reflectivity, improving hardness, and preventing corrosi...
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Corrosion and Surface Finishing
Surface finishing is very important to most industries for a variety of reasons. The finishing process could be used for reflectivity, improving hardness, or for decorating a finished product to attract potent...
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World Health Organization’s Standards from the Viewpoint of Health Risks
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a special agency of the United Nations (UN). It was established in 1948 and is concerned with international public health. Its objective is for all people to attain the h...
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Japanese Environmental Regulations
After World War Two (WW2), Japan sought for industrial development and entered a high-growth period with the growth of baby boomers. However, the Japanese focused too much on the development and neglected cons...
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Substitution with More Friendly Elements
As described in detail already, environmentally friendly surface finishing processes are available by substituting the original process or plating itself with something less harmful. As for the process changes...
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Process Changes
As described in detail already, environmental friendliness is needed for sustainable development. There are two basic ways to make the surface finishing process more environmentally friendly. One of them is th...
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Introduction
In this chapter, we provide background information as to why we decided to launch on this book project. Also we present a general sketch about the organization of the book. Surface finishing technology is actu...
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Future Scope
For this closing book chapter, the authors have summarized their concepts (about corrosion control and surface finishing using environmentally friendly approaches) that were presented and discussed within the ...
