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http://dx.doi.org/10.7842/kigas.2014.18.5.12

The Development and Introduction of External Corrosion Direct Assessment Measures for Urban Gas Pipelines  

Ryou, Young-Don (Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
Lee, Jin-Han (Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
Yoon, Yung-Ki (Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
Lim, Ho-Seok (Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas / v.18, no.5, 2014 , pp. 12-19 More about this Journal
Abstract
To minimize the risk of corrosion on buried pipeline and to maximize the efficiency of cathodic protection, various indirect inspection techniques have been used for decades. In the United States, 49 CFR has regulated the external corrosion direct assessment for buried pipelines. In Korea, there is no provision for external corrosion direct assessment but there is only, according to the KGS Code, provision that if the survey of the defects of buried pipeline and the leakage test for the pipe were conducted, it is deemed to leakage inspection. We, therefore, have suggested external corrosion direct assessment method appropriate to domestic status through the survey of the regulations and standards of UK and the USA and the investigation of domestic situation on coating damage detection method. The proposed external corrosion direct evaluation method was used as the basis when introducing the precision safety diagnosis regulation for the medium-pressure pipe in Korea.
Keywords
external corrosion direct assessment; buried gas pipelines; coating defects;
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