Validation plan for boundary element method modeling of impressed current cathodic protection system design and control response

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Hogan ◽  
J. E. McElman ◽  
E. J. Lemieux ◽  
M. S. Krupa ◽  
V. G. DeGiorgi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
System Design ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Cathodic Protection ◽  
Validation Plan ◽  
Control Response ◽  
Impressed Current ◽  
Cathodic Protection System ◽  
And Control ◽  
Impressed Current Cathodic Protection

BARROW ISLAND CATHODIC PROTECTION SYSTEM — DESIGN, INSTALLATION AND COMMISSIONING

1984 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
A. J. Lees
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Cathodic Protection ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Detailed Design ◽  
Pilot Scheme ◽  
Repair Costs ◽  
Impressed Current ◽  
Cathodic Protection System ◽  
Impressed Current Cathodic Protection

The Barrow Island oil field, with an area of about one hundred square kilometres containing over six hundred wells, presents an engineering challenge of vast magnitude in the protection of investment in the wells and their casings against the destructive process of corrosion. The growing incidence of casings leaks and escalation in the costs of repairing externally corroded casings provided the impetus for pilot scheme studies and subsequent design and installation of an impressed current cathodic protection system on a scale not previously undertaken in Australia.Data obtained from pilot scheme tests carried out in the latter half of 1979 established the basis of a feasible design. Detailed design and installation through 1980-81 was followed by commissioning of the first area of the system early in 1982.Design of the cathodic protection system was tailored to the local field conditions; the design was modified when necessary as installation and commissioning difficulties arose. Several minor operational problems encountered to date are still to be resolved.The total initial outlay of $5.7 million should result in minimum cumulative savings in well casing repair costs of $15 million over the next 15 years.

Corrosion Protection Features Of the Hyperion Ocean Outfall★

CORROSION ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 41-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARRY J. KEELING
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Corrosion Protection ◽  
Cathodic Protection ◽  
Current System ◽  
Coal Tar ◽  
Design Life ◽  
Impressed Current ◽  
Cathodic Protection System ◽  
Negative Buoyancy ◽  
Impressed Current Cathodic Protection

Abstract Details are presented on the planning, design and installation of corrosion protection facilities to provide 100-year design life for a 7-mile, 22-inch steel pipe sewer outfall, the outer end of which is in ocean water 340 feet deep. The outfall serves the sewerage systems of Los Angeles and 16 other adjacent municipalities. An impressed current cathodic protection system is used to protect the exterior of the pipe which is wrapped with a multiple-layer coal tar coating reinforced with glass fiber with bonded impregnated asbestos felt shield. A reinforced pneumatically applied cement mortar jacket provides negative buoyancy. Interior is protected by centrifugally-spun mortar lining with epoxy sleeves at welded tie-in joints. Because of the depth of water in which the pipe was to be placed several novel features were necessary. Cathodic protection was applied continuously during installation by the use of zinc anodes. This system was monitored to detect any serious coating holiday before the pipe was laid in deep water. Permanent test leads also were attached to the pipe so performance of the impressed current system could be checked, continuously. After 1½ years' operation there has been very little change in effective coating resistance, a pipe potential of —1.05 volts versus a copper/copper sulfate electrode being maintained with consumption of about 150 ma. 5.2.3

Optimization of Cathodic Protection System Design for Pipe-Lines Structure with Ribbon Sacrificial Anode Using BEM and GA

2011 ◽  
Vol 462-463 ◽  
pp. 1267-1272
Author(s):  
M. Safuadi ◽  
M. Ridha ◽  
Syifaul Huzni ◽  
Syarizal Fonna ◽  
Ahmad Kamal Ariffin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Cathodic Protection ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Sacrificial Anode ◽  
Laplace’S Equation ◽  
Laplace's Equation ◽  
Cathodic Protection System ◽  
Element Method ◽  
Pipe Lines

In this paper, combination of a boundary element formulation and genetic algorithm (GA) was developed and used for analyzing of cathodic protection systems of buried pipe-lines structures. It is very important to maintain the effectiveness of the cathodic protection system for pipeline structure, in order to lengthen the lifetime of the system. However, nowadays the evaluation of the effectiveness of the system only could be performed after the system applying in the field. This study was conducted to combine 2D boundary element method (BEM) and GA in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the cathodic protection system for pipe-lines structure using ribbon sacrificial anode. Two factors i.e. the soil conductivity and the distance between pipe-lines and anode, were analyzed by using the proposed method. In this method, the potential in the domain was modeled by Laplace’s equation. The anode and cathode areas were represented by polarization curves of different metals. Boundary element method was applied to solve the Laplace’s equation to obtain any potential and current density in the whole surface of the pipe. The pipe and anode were modeled into 2D model. The numerical analysis result shows that the optimum distance between pipe-lines and anode can be determined by combining BEM and GA.

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