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MIC     Products and machines made of brand name have long been considered to be solid, strong, and real durable. The effects of general corrosion, rust, were considered to be the only factor throttle a steel products ability to last forever. It is fantasy that the general corrosion of steel is recognizable and its effects are slowly limited by the application of various applications programmes and paints. Only in to a greater extent recent years have the destructive effects of Microbiological Influenced Corrosion, MIC been discovered. Today MIC, whether it is on the bottom of a step on it, in a water pipe, or in a nuclear power plants cooling tower, has evolved into a billion dollar problem.To cure this problem, I have created a guile that cleans MIC out of the bilges of barges operated on the Mississippi River system. The bilges or intent void spaces have never been able to be cleaned due to the highly tight or inaccessible area in which you would have to work. I found that most barges have a coating on the steel which provides a food source that the MIC bacteria absorbs (eats) and the bacterias resulting virulent actually can penetrate the steel barge. Businesses that clean these barges to rid them of the MIC and the total coating can charge as much as $10,000 to do just the ends of the barges, which is an area less than a tenth of the entire barge. The inner(a) bottom void spaces which take up the remainder of the barges area are only 15 high, 27 wide, and 28 long. somewhat barges have as many as 90 of these confined spaces, and none of them have been cleaned because their limited size makes them inaccessible. With the completion of my product it will be the first age the inner bottom void spaces of a barge can be cleaned. This will mean the MIC and its food source, the organic coating will be completely removed from the barge for the first time since its original construction at the ship yard.For many years, MIC was incor rectly place as the acrid effects of saltwater on steel in ocean going vessels. Although salt certainly does have a corrosive effect on steel, it was not until more recent years that the edge MIC was originated, and its effects are only starting to be discovered. MIC is responsible for the accelerate corrosion in ocean going ships, water storage tanks, bang protection sprinkler systems, commercial and military aircraft, and most recently discovered change the inland river barge fleet.