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Engineering Technology Far-end Telecontrol Cathodic Protection on the Structure of Jetty Bridge Cap Beams

  • Liu, Yi-Hsiung;Lim, Pau-Yee;Shih, Chien-Chis
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.47-52
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    • 2003
  • 23 cap beams on the 1 Km length jetty bridge in Shin-da power plant (Taipower co., Taiwan) utilize far-end telecontrol cathodic protection technology which is the first case ever used in Taiwan. The system comprises cathodic protection system and te1econtrol monitoring system. The control and monitoring such as protection current adjustment, protection potential and depolarization measurement of the 23 cap beams can be adjusted through system telecontrol operations. Thereby allows monitoring and control of the 23 anode zones in a convenient and cost effective way. This system is at present still in its best running condition since Sept. 1997 when it was completed. All the 23 cap beams can achieve the 100 mV depolarization potential criteria of protection. It meet the specifications of reinforced concrete cathodic protection standard and proved to be very excellent.

Fracture Toughness Evaluation of Natural Gas Pipeline under the Cathodic Protection

  • Kim, Cheol-Man;Baek, Jong-Hyun;Kim, Young-Pyo;Kim, Woo-Sik
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.133-138
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    • 2009
  • For the corrosion protection of the natural gas transmission pipelines, two methods are used, cathodic protection and coating technique. In the case of cathodic protection, defects are embrittled by occurring hydrogen at the crack tip or material surface. It is however very important to evaluate whether cracks in the embrittled area can grow or not, especially in weld metal. In this work, on the basis of elastic plastic fracture mechanics, we performed the CTOD testing with various test conditions, such as testing rate and potential. The CTOD of the base metal and the weld metal showed a strong dependence of the test conditions. The CTOD decreased with decreasing testing rate and with increasing cathodic potential. The morphology of the fracture surface showed the quasi-cleavage at low testing rate and cathodic overprotection. The low CTOD was caused by hydrogen embrittlement at crack tip.

Field Testing Center Design of Cathodic Protection System for Maritime Metallic Structures (해양구조물 전기방식시스템 현장적용실험장 설계)

  • Ha, Tae-Hyeon;Bae, Jeong-Hyo;Lee, Hyeon-Gu;Ha, Yun-Cheol;Kim, Dae-Gyeong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.11c
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    • pp.633-636
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    • 2003
  • Most of maritime metallic structures are adopted a CP(Cathodic Protection) System for protection of corrosion in advanced country. So, we had been developed a remote corrosion monitoring control system. And we want to know the characteristics of efficiency, reliability, durability and so on. On the view point of it, we have to test in real field. in terms of design, cathodic protection systems, corrosion monitoring systems and optimal corrosion control systems compare to general commercial products. So, these systems have being studied to improve their capability. In this paper, the result of field testing center design of intelligent cathodic protection system including anodes, a real-time wireless remote corrosion monitoring and corrosion control system are described in naval ports.

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Study on the Cathodic Protectioin Behavior of Hot Water Boiler by Mg-Alloy Galvanic Anode (Mg 합금유전양긍에 의한 온수보일러의 음극방식거동에 관한 연구)

  • 정기철
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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    • 2000.05a
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2000
  • As the development of industry water quality of river is going to bad because of waste water of an industrial complex and general home agricultural chemicals exhaust of $SO_3$ and CO gas acid rain and so on. Corrosion damage of boiler factory equipment and so forth occur quickly due to using of the polluted water resulting in increasing leak accident. Especially working life of hot water boiler using the polluted water becomes more short and energy loss increases. The cathodic protection method is the most economical and reliable one to prevent corrosion damage of steel structures. Mg-base alloys galvanic anode protection of cathodic protection method is suitable for than application of hot water boiler using water with high specific resistance such as tap water. This paper is studied on the cathodic protection characteristics of how water boiler. In tap water and 0.001mol/$\ell$ NaCl solution the characteristics of anodic polarization of Mg-base alloys galvanic anode and tube material is investigated the measurement of cathodic protection potential according to the time elaspsed is carried out.

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The Effects of cathodic protection on fracture toughness of buried gas pipeline (매설가스배관의 음극방식이 배관의 파괴인성에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Cheol-Man;Kim, Woo-Sik
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.573-578
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    • 2001
  • For the corrosion protect ion of the natural gas transmission pipelines, two methods are used, cathodic protection and coating technique. In the case of cathodic protection, defects are embrittled by occurring hydrogen at the crack tip or material surface. It is however very important to evaluate whether cracks in the embrittled area can grow or not, especially in weld metal. In this work, on the basis of elastic plastic fracture mechanics, we performed CTOD test ing with varying test conditions, such as the potential and current density. The CTOD of the base steel and weld metal showed a strong dependence of the test conditions. The CTOD decreased with increasing cathodic potential and current density. The morphology of the fracture surface showed quasi-cleavage. Hydrogen introduced fractures, caused by cathodic overprotection.

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Study on the Cathodic Protection Characteristics of Hot Water Boiler by Mg-Alloy Galvanic Anode(1) (Mg 합금 유전양극에 의한 온수Boiler의 음극방식특성에 관한 연구(1))

  • 임우조;윤병두
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.147-152
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    • 2001
  • Corrosion damage of boiler, factory equipment and so forth occur quickly due to using of the polluted water, resulting in increasing leak accident. Especially, working life of hot water boiler using the polluted water becomes more short, and energy loss increases. The cathodic protection method is the most economical and reliable one to prevent corrosion damage of steel structures. Mg-base alloys galvanic anode protection of cathodic protection methode is suitable for the application of hot water boiler using water with high specific resistance such as tap water. This paper is studied on the cathodic protection characteristics of hot water boiler. In tap water solution, the measurement of cathodic protection potential according to the time elapsed is carried out, and behavior of cathodic polarization with current change is investigated. The main results obtained are as follows. In hot water boiler shell, the open circuit potential of base metal become less noble than that of weld Bone, and the current density of base metal becomes low than that of weld zone. The further distance from Mg-alloy galvanic anode, the higher cathodic protection potential of hot water boiler appears. And protective potential becomes high according to pass cathodic protection time and after 6∼10 days become stable.

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Study on the Influence of Stray current Between Sacrificial Anode Cathodic Protection and Impressed Current Cathodic Protection in Marine Environment

  • Jeong, Jin-A;Kim, Ki-Joon
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.77-81
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    • 2012
  • Cathodic protection(CP) is widely used as a means of protecting corrosion for not only marine structures like ship hulls and offshore drilling facilities, but also underground structures like buried pipelines and oil storage tanks. The principle of CP is that the anodic dissolution of metal can be protected by supplying electrons to the cathode metal. When unprotected structures are nearby to CP systems, interference problems between unprotected and protected structures may be happened. The stray current interference can accelerate the corrosion of nearby structures. So far many efforts have been made to reduce the interference in the electric railway systems adjacent to the underground metal structures like buried pipelines and gas/oil tanks. During recent few decades the protection technologies against stray current induced corrosion have been significantly improved and a number of techniques have been developed. However, there is very limited information an marine environments. Some complex harbor structures are protected by two cathodic protection systems, i.e. sacrificial anode cathodic protection(SACP) and impressed current cathodic protection(ICCP). In this case, when the protection current from sacrificial anodes returns to the cathode through electrolyte, it passes through nearby other low resistance metal structures. In many cases the stray current of ICCP systems influences the function of SACP. In this study, the risk of stray current from the SACP system to adjacent reinforced concrete structures has been verified through laboratory experiments. Concrete and steel pile structures modeled a part of bridge have been investigated in terms of CP potential and current between the two. The variation of stray current according to the magnitude of ICCP/SACP has been studied to mitigate it and to suggest the proper protection criteria.

EFFECT OF POST-WELD HEAT TREATMENT OF MARINE STRUCTURE STEEL DURING CATHODIC PROTECTION

  • Kim, Seong-Jong;Masazumi Okido;Kim, Jin-Gyeong;Moon, Kyung-Man
    • Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.273-275
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    • 2002
  • The effect of post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) of marine structures steel was investigated at electrochemical viewpoint. In addition, slow strain rate test (SSRT) was carried out to investigate both electrochemical and mechanical properties by PWHT effect during impressed current cathodic protection. The optimum cathodic protection potential by SSRT was -770 mV(SCE). At the applied cathodic protection potential of -770 mV -850 mV(SCE), the fracture morphology was dimple pattern with ductile fracture, while it was transgranular pattern (Q.C: quasi cleavage) under -875 mV(SCE).

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Characteristics of Cathodic Protection with ICCP Anode in Reinforced Concrete (철근콘크리트용 ICCP 양극의 종류별 음극방식 특성)

  • Jeong, Jin-A
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.112-119
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents the results of a study of the effectiveness of cathodic protection with insoluble ICCP anode in reinforced concrete structures. Experimental tests were carried out on reinforced concrete specimens with 3 different commercial anodes for ICCP system in order to compare the effectiveness of cathodic protection. Results have shown that the kinds of anode for ICCP is irrelevant to the effectiveness of cathodic protection, In case of ICCP, the performance of cathodic protection has no relationship to the kinds of anode especially in concrete specimens with sea water condition. It has been found slightly more effective at Ti-Rod anode in fresh water condition and Ti-Mesh anode in atmospheric condition.