IMRt Masterclass | Future-Ready Corrosion Management: Integrating RBI, IIoT, and Sustainability

This talk presents a holistic, future-focused corrosion management framework where RBI, IIoT, and sustainability combine to improve reliability, safety, and environmental performance. A tank case study highlights real-world gains including 5× asset life, reduced maintenance costs, and increased plant throughput.

Competent corrosion management is an inherently sustainable practice. It enhances safety, reduces maintenance costs, and increases availability and throughput of processing plants. Future-Ready Corrosion Management: Integrating RBI, IIoT, and Sustainability reviews modern corrosion management practices, focusing on the development of systematic, integrated RBI processes for fixed assets and the expanding role of digital tools, IIoT technologies, and predictive methodologies in maintaining asset integrity.

The session highlights sustainable optimization strategies for process plant assets, showing how structured sustainability measures can simultaneously improve operational reliability and environmental performance. Together, these elements present a holistic, future-focused framework for long-term corrosion and asset management.

Using tanks as a case study, in this talk you will learn;

• How to achieve a 5× Increase in Asset Life
  Field data has demonstrated that the system extends the service life of hydrometallurgical process tank components by up to fivefold, significantly reducing replacement frequency.

• Enhanced Safety
  Real-time insights reduce the likelihood of tank failures, leaks, or integrity-related incidents.

• Reduced Maintenance Costs
  Predictive monitoring enables planned interventions rather than reactive repairs, lowering overall maintenance expenditure.

• Higher Plant Availability & Throughput
  By preventing unplanned downtime, the system directly contributes to increased operational uptime and production efficiency.

• Data-Driven Risk Reduction
  Visibility into corrosion progression allows operators to strategically allocate capital, prioritise high-risk assets, and reduce site-wide integrity risk.

• Improved Reporting & Compliance
  Automated dashboards and audit-ready data simplify reporting and ensure alignment with integrity, regulatory, and ESG expectations.

Agenda 

• Intros and setting expectations

• Main Presentation

• Group discussions and Q&A

• Conclusion

Meet the Presenter

Giles Harrison - Managing Director | TECHT

Giles is the Managing Director at TECHT and a Principal Corrosion. With over two decades of experience, he's actively involved in various corrosion consulting tasks. These include failure analysis investigations, plant inspections, developing corrosion mitigation strategies, including design and install of CP systems, aiding in material selection for projects, as well as reviewing and overseeing concrete and structural remedial activities. He has worked to develop and implement a systematic and integrated RBI process for fixed plant assets for numerous asset owners across the southern hemisphere. More recently he is leading initiatives to optimize process plant assets in sustainable ways. His work extends to developing and implementing systematic sustainability measures for a range of industries, ensuring long-term environmental and operational benefits. 

FAQs

What will I need to participate in this event?

Access to a PC / Tablet / Smartphone with Camera and Microphone.

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