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Titanium for Chemical and Petrochemical Plant and Systems Titanium was first used in chemical plant in the mid-1960s. Its outstanding resistance to corrosion in oxidising chloride environments, sea water and other aggressive media were rapidly established. In several processes titanium was the first and only choice for effective plant performance and acceptable levels of life cycle cost. Today as shown below titanium is more widely used. Costs of material and fabrication have both stabilised and titanium equipment, properly designed can compete with most of the more common but usually less effective corrosion resistant alloys.

Fabrication costs for titanium pressure vessels are surprisingly lower than for some other widely used corrosion resistant alloys.
The above table and graph were first published in Chemical Engineering Magazine, and we are indebted to the publishers and the authors for permission to reproduce this information.