Advanced Cathodic Protection Monitoring

1. Importance of Cathodic Protection Testing

2. Outline of the Course

3. Further Reading

1. Electricity and Current Flow

2. Electrical Terms and Measurements

3. Current Flow and Power

4. Alternating Current

5. Electric Circuits

6. Measuring Instruments

1. The Corrosion Cell

2. Reference Electrodes

3. The Galvanic Series

4. Importance of the Cathode

5. The Rusting of Steel

6. Corrosion Rate and Polarization

7. Corrosion in Soils

1. Principles of Cathodic Protection

2. The Galvanic Method

3. The Impressed Current Method

4. Other Cathodic Protection Hardware

5. Cathodic Protection Current Requirements

6. Cathodic Protection Criteria

7. Stray Current Effects

8. Cathodic Protection Monitoring

9. Measuring True Potential

10. Example of Cathodic Protection Monitoring

1. Coatings and Corrosion Control

2. Requirements of a Pipeline Coating

3. Types of Pipeline Coatings

4. Coating Defects

1. Test Equipment

2. Pipe-to-Soil Potential

3. Line Current

4. Anode Current Output

5. Electrical Continuity

6. Effectiveness of Insulating Joints

7. Cased Crossings

8. Cable Insulation

9. Soil Resistivity

10. Transformer-Rectifier Operation

11. Interference

12. Records

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