Any country’s economy and its development primarily depend on its
infrastructure apart from existing natural resources in that region. The infrastructure
mainly refers to irrigation system, buildings, roads, bridges, airports, transport,
education and industries located there. Here it is noteworthy that all these mentioned
infrastructures will be corrosion affective which may undergo degradation and
deterioration processes. Corrosion is an unavoidable problem that mainly impacts
industrial environment. Anthropogenic activity worldwide leads to enhancement of
atmospheric pollution which indirectly accelerates corrosion in the form of rust, water
pollution. Major industries in any country relate to chemical and fertilizers. India is
country with dense population and developing industrially at vast rate. Chemical
industry includes companies producing industrial chemicals in which raw materials like
water, air, oil, natural gas, minerals and metals converted into seventy thousand
products of different type. Indian statistics for the year 2018-19 indicate a production
of major petrochemicals and chemicals at 27,847 MT whereas 27,735 MT during
2017-18. In this chapter, we mainly focus on corrosion related to chemical and
fertilizer industries, impact of corrosion on their efficiency, corrosion controlling
methods and their interrelated phenomena if any.
Keywords: Chemicals, Corrosion, Fertilizers, Industry.
