Our readers will be saddened to hear of the death of Paul Dillon, who has been one of the most active and knowledgeable participants in the online Corrosion community, with his last message being only the day before this death. The following was originally sent to the NACE Corrosion Network by Gerry Craft, and is reproduced with his permission:
"Many of us only knew him through this net and never had the honor of meeting him in person. On line, he was generous with his vast
knowledge, modest about his personal achievement, and almost shy in his responses. For those who had not met him, he wrote a short column that appeared in the December 2003 edition of MATERIALS PERFORMANCE, page 8 that was accompanied by his photograph.
"One time, Paul joined a message thread that contained many disparate opinions. He entered quietly, gave his opinion, and, in his unassuming way, provided his resume as a way of letting the originator of the question know he had the expertise to provide the correct answer. For those who may be too new to this net to have gotten to know Paul, I would like to include it here:
"RESUME
"C.P. ("Paul") Dillon is a registered professional engineer in the State of California (Corrosion Engineering), a NACE-certified Corrosion Specialist and a Fellow of NACE International and the Materials Technology Institute of the Chemical Process Industries.
"A graduate chemist (Georgetown U.) and meteorologist (Army Air Corps TTC), he took advantage of an improved pension plan to retire as Manager, Materials Engineering, from the Chemicals & Plastics Division of Union Carbide Corporation after 34 years of service. A consultant since 1976, he is a recognized authority on materials selection, heavy chemicals manufacture, inorganic preparations, selected organic syntheses and specific problems associated with the chemical process industries.
"He has served as a consultant for UNIDO in Romania, Turkey and India. Since 1986, he has been the Chemical Process Industry consultant for the Nickel Development Institute.
"He is the author of "Corrosion Control in the Chemical Process Industries- 2d Ed." (NACE 1993); "Materials Selection for the Chemical Process Industries (McGraw-Hill 1992); "Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels" (Marcel Dekker 1995); MTI Manual No. 1, "Guidelines for Prevention of Stress Corrosion Cracking of Nickel-Bearing Stainless Steels and Nickel-Base Alloys"; the MTI Special Technical Paper, "Pyrophoric Surfaces on Zirconium Equipment- A Potential Ignition Hazard"; MTI Manual, "Guidelines for Performance of Seawater-Cooled Tubular Heat Exchangers in the Chemical Process Industries" (NiDI No. 12 002) and co-author (with D.R. McIntyre) of MTI Manual No. 15, "Prevention of Stress Corrosion Cracking in the Chemical Process Industries" and the MTI publication, "Pyrophoric Behavior of the Reactive Metals", as well as numerous technical articles. He was editor of and contributor to the NACE Handbook No. 1, "Forms of Corrosion-Recognition and Prevention".
"He was the Domain Expert for the MTI/NACE/NiDI Materials Selection Advisors on Concentrated Sulfuric Acid/Oleum, ChemCor.1 (September 1989), Dilute Sulfuric Acid and Once-Through Waters. He has also served on the Resource Groups for other MSA's in this series of computer-assisted materials selection systems and is Technical Editor of the accompanying monographs, e.g. MTI Publication MS-1, "Materials Selector for Hazardous Chemicals- Vol. 1: Concentrated Sulfuric Acid and Oleum"(1997 ), MS-2, "Vol.2; Formic, Acetic & Other Organic Acids"(1997) and MS-3, "Hydrochloric Acid, Hydrogen Chloride and Chlorine"(1999). He is technical editor of the 2001 CorSur Windows 98 revision."
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