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In these very days when the editorial staff of Corrosion Protection is completing the October issue, I have read that in 2024, Amazon is going to start experimenting in Italy with the delivery of parcels by drones within 60 minutes of ordering.
These unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be of military or civil type and are now well-established tools, also in industrial settings, either to perform high-risk tasks by replacing specialised personnel or to prevent accidents in the workplace, for example.
Equipped with a variety of ancillary equipment such as photo and video cameras, temperature or gas detectors, laser scanners, and more, and capable of collecting and transmitting data in real-time, drones can guard hazardous areas on their own with full remote control. Another advantage of their use is the reduction in the cost of inspection and monitoring activities. Advanced technologies such as robotics, drones and sensors, but also virtual reality and artificial intelligence can then make a significant contribution to corrosion protection in terms of inspection, detection, monitoring and prevention.
This issue of Corrosion Protection, which ends the first year of successful publication of this technological and scientific journal born from the rebranding of the ipcm®_Protective Coatings magazine, includes two articles on the application of drones, robots and advanced sensor systems for medium and long-term corrosion monitoring and for the prevention of degradation processes aimed at correctly planning maintenance operations in the Oil & Gas industry, where the use of drones for this purpose is most widespread, and in the infrastructure sector.
In many cases, these are still pilot projects or special application cases, but technological developments are going to enable increasingly precise (and personnel-safe) assessment of corrosion phenomena in future.
Other articles confirm the growing importance of powder primers in the corrosion protection industry. New zinc-rich epoxy paint products with special additives and fillers guarantee increased corrosion resistance in many industrial applications, with both one and two-coat systems.
Finally, numerous essays by scientists and professors present Corrosion Protection’s readers with case studies from both the infrastructure and pipeline sectors.
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