Corrosion Short Courses: Cathodic Protection of Underground Pipelines. Cathodic Protection Design Review, Design Calulation Verification, Design Endorsement

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Cathodic Protection of Underground Pipelines

Course Overview

Maintaining the ageing infrastructure such as underground pipelines is a challenge to the oil and gas industry worldwide. Understanding why and how cathodic protection works or fails can help the operator formulate appropriate strategy in managing the pipeline corrosion problems. This two-day course covers both the fundamentals and practices in designing, operating and maintaining cathodic protection of underground pipelines. An overview of the NACE standard on “Pipeline External Corrosion Direct Assessment Methodology” will also be presented.

This course is available for in-house training, online and distance learning worldwide. It can also be customized to meet the specific needs of your organization.

Course Outline

1 Primer on Chemistry and Metallurgy

2 Fundamentals of corrosion
   2.1 Why do metals corrode
   2.2 How do metals corrode
   2.3 General methods of corrosion control and prevention

3 Cathodic Protection
   3.1 Introduction
         3.1.1 How it works
         3.1.2 Why it works
         3.1.3 How effective it is

   3.2 Sacrificial Anode Cathodic Protection
         3.2.1 Anode materials
         3.2.2 Anode design

   3.3 Impressed Current Cathodic Protection
        3.3.1 Consumable ICCP Anodes
        3.3.2 Permanent ICCP Anodes
        3.3.3 Power Sources
        3.3.4 Cables and Connections

3.4 Criteria for Cathodic Protection

4 Instrumentation for Cathodic Protection of Underground Pipelines
   4.1 Reference potential devices
   4.2 Potential measuring instrument
   4.3 Soil resistivity test instruments
   4.4 Wall thickness and pit gages
   4.5 Current interrupters
   4.6 Test rectifiers
   4.7 Holiday detectors

5 Cathodic Protection of Underground Pipelines
   5.1 Electrical resistivity
   5.2 Resistance of ground connection
   5.3 Non-uniform electrolyte
   5.4 Groundbed Design
   5.5 Long pipelines and pipe insulating joints

6 Stray Current Corrosion and Methods of Prevention
   6.1 Stray current corrosion and electrolysis
   6.2 Practical stray current problems
   6.3 Interference from other CP installations

7 Pipeline Coatings
7.1 Effectiveness of coatings

   7.2 Coatings specification
   7.3 Coatings inspection
   7.4 Type of pipeline coatings
   7.5 Coating failures and analysis

8 Cathodic Protection and Coatings

9 Pipeline Inspection: Survey Methods and Evaluation Techniques
   9.1 Survey methods for pipeline not under cathodic protection
   9.2 Survey methods for pipeline under cathodic protection
   9.3 Overview of NACE Standard on “Pipeline External Corrosion Direct Assessment Methodology”

Who Should Attend

Engineers and technologists who are in charge of cathodic protection systems
Designers who are interested in cathodic protection technology for corrosion prevention
Technicians and maintenance personnel who deal with installed cathodic protection systems
Facility owners and users who are concerned with corrosion

Registration for This Corrosion Course

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In-House Training Corrosion Courses

If you are concerned with corrosion in your business, in-house training is a great solution to train a group of employees from design, production, operation, quality assurance, inspection and maintenance, and technical sales and support on corrosion control and corrosion prevention technology. The contents of all corrosion courses can be customized to fit your organization's needs.

There is no minimum or maximum number of participants required for in-house training corrosion courses. We conduct the in-house training corrosion course at your company's premises and at a time convenient to your company. Requests for in-house training corrosion courses from overseas countries are also welcome.

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Corrosion Course-On-Demand

All our publicly scheduled corrosion short courses are conducted once a year. However, you do not need to wait for one year if you have missed any of the publicly scheduled corrosion courses as we have this unique corrosion course-on-demand scheme: we will conduct the course just for you on an one-on-one basis at a time and in a location convenient to you. This option costs significantly less than a full-scale in-house training program.

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Online and Distance Learning Corrosion Courses

All corrosion courses can be conducted through online or distance learning. An username and password will be emailed to course participants for accessing the online course materials. Alternatively, a CD-ROM containing the same online course material or a master hard copy of corrosion course notes can be sent to your organization. Instructions, course assignments, discussions and questions related to the corrosion courses are posted on the website. Free email support for online courses is provided for a period up to 12 months. A Certificate of Completion will be issued to participants who pass the online test with a score of 70% and above.

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PowerPoint Slides and Test Banks for Trainers, Instructors, Tutors, University Lecturers and Professors

If you are involved in teaching corrosion courses, you may wish to purchase a complete set of PowerPoint slides and the computerized test banks (in MicroTest format) with solutions. These presentations are suitable for teaching corrosion courses at different levels (from undergraduate to postgraduate) and durations (from 6 hrs to 40 hrs). These ready-to-use corrosion PowerPoint slides contain high quality color photographs, illustrations, animations and video clips. They can also be easily edited and customized to your own styles. The corrosion test banks contain over 1,000 corrosion questions for your use in tutorials, tests or examinations. These questions are conveniently grouped into 4 categories in the test bank: (1) true or false, (2) multiple choice, (3) calculation, and (4) reasoning and open-ended discussions).

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