NTIC Leadership in NACE | Zerust VCI Corrosion Inhibitors

NTIC continues to provide leadership for several committees in NACE International, the association of corrosion engineers.

NACE is organized with a hierarchy of committees under a Board of Directors of members. The board and all other members of NACE represent corrosion-related industries, universities, military organizations, consultants and other individual experts with interests in corrosion-related science and engineering.

A group of upper level technical committees, called Specific Technology Groups, guide the work of NACE within broad categories.
Special Technology Group STG-61, related to the use of corrosion and scale inhibitors. Dr. Jim Henderson is currently Vice Chairman of this STG. Each STG does its work through various Technology Exchange Groups (TEG), Task Groups (TG), Technical Symposia and liaison with other STGs. For example, STG-61 is currently composed of about 10 TEGs and TGs related to inhibitors used in the oil and gas industry as well as our smaller industry of VCI and RP materials. Several of the TEGs sponsor symposia for technical papers
Technical Exchange Group TEG-093X (within STG-61)is the forum for work in NACE on shared interested in VCI technology, applications, products, and materials. Jim Henderson is currently Chairman of this committee. He is Chairman and a reviewer for its symposium of technical papers.
Task Group TG-215 (within STG-61) has been chaired by Prof. Lyublinski since 2002, with Jim Henderson as Vice Chairman. They have had exceptional supporting work from NACE staff and membership, and from NTIC by colleagues including Dr. Don Kubik, Barb Nygaard and Sue Shellhouse. This TG effort of several years resulted in the 2008 publication of NACE Standard TM0208-2008 of the test method for "Vapor Inhibiting Ability - Ferrous", or VIA-F.
Task Group TG-420 (within STG-61), Chaired by Jim Henderson, was just formed and met for the first time this year. They begin a process that is expected to result in a standard for test methods for "Vapor Inhibiting Ability - Nonferrous" (VIA-NF).

Professor Efim Lyublinski

Chairman of Task Group TG-215
Member of NACE since 1993

Other biographical details for Professor Efim Lyublinski

His service to NTIC since 1988 has been as Vice President and Director of the New Technologies and Application Engineering
He has five decades of years experience and contributions in corrosion science and corrosion protection
Previous to becoming Vice President of NTIC a decade ago, and becoming a US Citizen, he was the Head of Laboratory of Combined Corrosion Protection Methods at Central Research Institute of Structural Materials ("PROMETHEUS") in St. Petersburg, Russia.
He was honored as the youngest scientist/lab director to have the honorary title of "Academician", which recognizes a select few who are Full Members of the Russian National Academy of Sciences; designees strongly influence national scientific life.
He has authored numerous patents and inventions, about 14 books and booklets, and more than 250 technical papers, articles and presentations at technical conferences worldwide in corrosion and corrosion protection areas.

Dr. "Jim" Henderson

Chairman of STG-61, corrosion and scale inhibitors
Chairman of TEG-093X, VCI technology, applications, products and materials
Chairman of a Task Group TG-420, test methods of Vapor Inhibiting Ability - Nonferrous
Vice Chairman (2003-2009) TG-215, test methods of Vapor Inhibiting - Ferrous

Other biographical details for Jim Henderson

NACE Member since 2003.
Service to NTIC since late 1990s, beginning as a consultant and President of a former subsidiary, and since 2001 as Director of Technical Marketing for the Zerust Division.
In the 1990s, he was Vice President of several Emerson Electric companies including the Emerson Corporate Advanced Materials Center,Branson Ultrasonics and Rosemount Analytical Inc.
In the 1970s and 1980s he held a progression of management positions in GE Lighting, including directing the Lighting Materials Laboratory, program management to create several joint ventures owned by GE and Toshiba (Japan), and engineering leadership for various discharge lamp, halogen lamp and incandescent lamp businesses.
He is a Trustee of MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL (1983-present), earned a Ph.D. in physics from Duke University and undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, and is a registered professional engineering.