Microbially Induced Corrosion and its Mitigation

Dr. Ajay  K. Singh is Professor in Applied Science & Engineering at Saharanpur Campus of IIT Roorkee (India). Professor Singh’s area of interest is Materials Science and Corrosion since last 34 Years. He has guided 10 Ph.D. theses and 4 Ph.D. students are working in the areas of Microbial Corrosion, Process Industry Corrosion, nanocoating and nanobioprocessing. He has worked as Researcher at Centre Belge d'Etude de la Corrosion (CEBELCOR), Brusseles, Belgium during 1994-95, 96 and at Uppsala University and Swedish Corrosion Institute, Stockholm, Sweden during 1982-83. He has 105 research papers, has worked on several R&D projects and currently working on two projects on “Microbial Corrosion”.

• Corrosion, its mechanism and various types.- Microbial Induced Corrosion and related theories.- Effect of MIC on Industrial Economy.- Strategies to mitigate/control MIC.- Industrial cases of MIC and discussion on their mitigation.- Current Areas of pursuit for control of MIC including Green Technology Approach.