Duration: 4 days

Course Content:

• Basics of corrosion; terminology,
• electrode potential, reference cells polarisation diagrams
• electrolytes (soil/water composition), methods of controlling corrosion,
• principles of coating of buried and immersed structures,
• sacrificial anode systems, impressed current systems;
• typical designs of CP system, CP materials,
• potential measurements; monitoring and maintenance criteria for CP and their limitations; Pourbaix diagram interpretation;
• surface film effects; polarisation diagrams;
• CP design considerations for sacrificial anode and impressed current systems;
• construction materials specification and quality control;
• safety considerations, attenuation calculations;
• commissioning a CP system; potential measurements.