A Study on the Characteristics for AC Corrosion of Gas Pipelines

가스배관의 교류부식 특성에 관한 연구

Direct current corrosion have being investigated by lots of scientists but alternating current corrosion was ignored because the corrosion rate by AC was very small. Recently however, AC corrosion accidents have been reported in many other countries. So the study of AC corrosion is to be necessary In these days. In this paper, several experiments which intentionally imposed the AC or DC to the specimens also imposed AC and DC at the same time was carried out in the laboratory to examine the AC corrosion characteristics and in addition applied the same way in the field. Moreover, while the field investigations of the abnormal corrosion failures, It was the AC that caused one of corrosion failures.

부$\cdot$방식분야에서 직류부식은 많이 연구되어 왔지만, 교류부식은 직류에 비래 부식률이 매우 낮다는 이유로 소홀히 연구되어 왔다. 그러나 최근 유럽을 비롯한 북미에서도 교류부식에 의한 사고가 빈발하게 발생하기 시작하였다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 가스배관의 교류부식에 대한 특성을 실험실 시험과 현장에서의 실 사례 연구를 통하여 규명하였다.