Course Details
Course Outline
10 days course
Significance of Corrosion Control
- Corrosion - Largest Single Cause of Plant Failure
- Economic Effects
- Environmental Effects
- Safety Effects
- Corrosion Management Preventive Strategies
- Cost of Corrosion
- Case Study: Catastrophic Corrosion Accidents
Corrosion & Its Control
- Requirements for Corrosion to Occur
- Metallurgical Factors
- Forms of Corrosion
- Corrosion Control Methods
- Material Selection
- Environmental Modification
- Protective Coatings
- Cathodic Protection
Corrosive Environments & Construction of Materials
- Atmospheric Environments
- Marine atmospheres
- Industrial Atmospheres
- Underground Environments
- Concrete Structure Environment
- Corrosion Properties of Carbon Steels
- Corrosion Properties of Cast Iron
- Corrosion Properties of Stainless Steels
- Corrosion Resistance Properties of Aluminum
- Corrosion Properties of Copper
- Corrosion Properties of Nickle
Fundamentals of Cathodic Protection Systems
- Galvanic Series
- General Application of Cathodic Protection
- Economic Considerations
- Industry Standard & Codes
- Principle of CPS
- The Cathodic Protection Cell
- Methods of Applying Cathodic Protection
- Sacrificial Cathodic Protection System
- Impressed-Current Cathodic Protection System
- Advantages of SCPS
- Disadvantages SCPS
- Advantages ICCP
- Disadvantages ICCP
- CPS Selection
- Basic Requirements for Cathodic Protection
- Principles Of Cathodic Protection
- Cathodic Protection Criteria
- Current Rectifiers/DC Power Source
- Applicable NACE Standard for Cathodic Protection Systems
Cathodic Protection Systems and Coatings
- Role of Protective Coating in CPS
- Selection Factors
- Coating Defects
- Coating Efficiency
- Overvoltage
- Cathodic Disbondment
- Commonly used Coating in Conjunction with CPS
Cathodic Protection System Design
- Design Factors
- Electrolyte resistivity survey
- Electrolyte pH survey
- Structure versus electrolyte potential survey
- Current requirement
- Coating resistance
- Protective current required
- Sacrificial anode (galvanic) cathodic protection design
- Impressed current cathodic protection system design
- Soil resistivity
- Current requirement test
- Typical CPS Design Parameters
- pH TESTING PROCEDURES
- Current Requirement Testing
Anodes & Rectifiers
- Anode Selection
- Current output
- Driving Potential
- Anode life
- Anode Shape & Dimension
- Anode Material Cost
- Anode Efficiency
- Galvanic Anode Types
- Current Requirements for ICCP System
- Anode Materials for ICCP
- Anode Backfilling
- Installation of Sacrificial Anodes
- Anode Vent Piping
- Impressed Current Anode Beds
- Quality Control and Quality Assurance
- Impressed Current Rectifiers/DC Power Source
Practicing & Construction of Cathodic Protection System
- Components of Cathodic Protection Systems
- Essential Components
- Isolating joints
- Junction Boxes
- Test stations, measuring points and coupons
- Sleeve pipe
- Thermite Weld
- Earthing Systems
- Line current measurement
- Pipe Sleeves/Casings
- Concrete Encased Pipe
- Cathodic Protection Vessels & Tank Internals Vessels & Tank
- Tanks for Storage of Chemicals
- Water Circulating Systems
- Heat exchangers (tube and shell)
- Water box coatings
- Submarine pipelines
- Construction of Cathodic Protection Systems
Instrumentation & Safety Aspects
- Alkalinity
- Hydrogen Evolution
- Chloride Evolution
- Installation Adjacent to Telecommunication Services
- Installation Adjacent to Railway Signal & Protection Circuits
- Interaction at Discontinuities in Cathodically Protected Structures
- Installation at Jetties & Ships
- Danger of Electric Shock
- Installations on Immersed Structures
- Installations for the Internal Protection of Plant
- Fault Conditions in Electricity Power Systems
- Stray Current Corrosion
- High Impedance Voltmeter
- Reference Cells (Half Cells) Reference Cells
Corrosion Management Systems
- Oilfield Cathodic Protection Systems
- Corrosion Economy
- Corrosion Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Asset Integrity and Corrosion Management
- Corrosion Data Management
