NEW PUBLICATION – Bacteria found to corrode carbon steel
In our latest publication, Yajie Chen, Johanna Torres, Homero Castaneda, and Lu-Kwang Ju demonstrate that nutrient starved Desulfovibrio vulgaris (a sulfate reducing bacterium) is more corrosive than sea-water-level chloride under anaerobic condition. Neither the bacteria nor chloride caused significant steel weight loss (corrosion). However, when the bacteria is starved of …