Failures due to corrosion are a common thing in electronics used in control rooms. Critical control rooms need to work without any downtime as the operations are crucial. Electronic process-control equipment which varies from remote sensors to distributed control systems makes any facility functional and operational and keeps them up and running. To achieve this, it requires the correct sensor functioning, communications, and process control. But eventually it is being observed that these critical electronics are catastrophically failing due to the damaging environment in which they are functioning. Please refer the article - Electronics failures and corrosion in industries to know more about the corrosion on electronics. The working environment must be managed by employing proper corrosion monitoring units and corrosion control equipment to prevent corrosion in control rooms. In this article, let us try to understand the 5 major benefits of corrosion control and monitoring.  

  Electronic components are made of metallic and non-metallic materials that are prone to corrosion. If left unchecked, electronic corrosion can harm electronic components such as film disks and edge connectors in data centres. Film disks store data, and if corroded the stored information could get lost.   Edge connectors are made of copper or are gold-plated over a copper substrate and are situated on the circuit boards. Corrosion can easily lead to disruption in the connector points and affect data transfer. In the case of control rooms or server rooms all metals are susceptible to corrosion in a similar way. Corrosion in electronics is mainly caused by Acidic gases. The major ones include: ●         Hydrogen sulphide (H 2 S) ●         Sulphur and nitrogen oxides (SO X , NO X ) ●         Inorganic chlorine compounds (Cl 2 , ClO 2 , HCL) ●         Photochemical entities (O 3 ) Hydrogen sulphide (H 2 S) H 2 S will produce HS - ions which will interact with silver and cop