Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials: Volume 25 Issue 12

Automatically controlled impressed current cathodic protection systems

G.H. Backhouse

Introduction Cathodic protection is used to prevent corrosion of buried or immersed steel structures. Current is made to enter the surface of the structure via a system of anodes…

Sub‐Sea Engineering—specialising in NDT and corrosion protection

Earlier this year, the Sub Sea Engineering Division of Ocean Inchcape Ltd (OIL) installed a complete cathodic protection system on Gulf Oil's loading terminal jetty at Whiddy…

Impressed current cathodic protection and its effect on marine paint systems

Michael H. Bingham, Peter W. Munn

The operation of impressed current cathodic protection devices on ships frequently results in some destruction of the paint coating on the rest of the structure. The reasons why…

Cathodic protection miscellany: news and notes

Anodic behaviour of lead and lead alloys A guide to the use of lead and lead alloys as anodic materials in such processes as cathodic protection, electrolysis, electrosynthesis…

Assessing the quality of corrosion protection coatings on aluminium—Part 3

W.H. Gühring Ing. grad.

Considering the equivalent circuit in Fig 1 (see November issue) it should be noted that the magnitude of Co and Ro is hardly affected by the sealing process, the progressive…