The Department of Chemical Engineering at the College of Engineering at Al-Qadisiyah University held a scientific workshop entitled (Function of Vanadium Inhibitors in Fuel Oil) at the hall of the Unit of Continuing Education, in which Prof. Abbas Khalaf Muhammad, Ph.D. and Lecturer Nawras Sherif Sobeih have delivered the workshop. It has aimed to introduce the harmful effects of the presence of vanadium in fuel and methods for treating it.

        The workshop has showed that the successful combustion of heavy fuel in gas turbines depends on additives that prevent hot corrosion in the parts of the turbine that are exposed to the flow of hot gases. To prevent corrosion resulting from vanadium occurring in the hot parts of the turbine, this requires the use of the lowest percentage of magnesium to equal the vanadium present in the heavy fuel and mentioned a group of magnesium complexes that gives varying solubility in fuel and different metal content, and are divided into two categories: compounds dissolved in fuel, and compounds suspended in fuel that act as corrosion inhibitors. The workshop has recommended to continue doing scientific research on a group of anti-corrosion metals and studying their efficiency.