Effect of Corrosion on Mild Steel in Food Processing Industry: A Review

Abstract

Corrosion is a watch word when it comes to the deterioration of material exposed tochemical, electrochemical or biochemical substances in the environment, this results to electron loss in metal as they come in contact with oxygen and water. Mild steel is one of the major materials exposed to this corrosion in humid air, acidic and other environment, it finds its application in construction work in the industry because of its low cost, it is chosen as a material of choice even in food processing industry, The aim of the work is to review literature on the effect of corrosion of mild steel in food processing industry, the tomato fruit which is also a vegetable was used as a case study to carried out the review, the review highlighted the detection, prevention, method, inspection and control method to tackle corrosion problem. The review also explained the different forms of corrosion and how they affect metals.