Eurocorr 2001

This session was organised by Professor Michael SchuÈtze of the Karl Winnacker Institute (KWI) of Dechema in Frankfurt, who is Chairman if EFC WP 3 on `Corrosion by hot gases and combustion products’. This was a one and a half day session with a dozen oral presentations and some posters. Germany is a focal point for high temperature corrosion research at present, and this is where 50% of the presentations in this session had originated, split equally between KWI and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) in DuÈsseldorf. This is where Professor Hans Grabke, Professor SchuÈtze’s predecessor as Chairman of WP 3, conducted his seminal work on metal dusting over the past decade. The metal dusting phenomenon and ways to alleviate it figured prominently in this session, as did problems in coal gasification and combustion processes, particularly those using high sulphur fuels, and in waste incineration plants.