Corrosion Short Courses: Cathodic Protection of Underground Pipelines, presented by NACE certified Corrosion Specialist , WebCorr Corrosion Consulting Services.

Cathodic Protection of Underground Pipelines

Course Overview

Maintaining the ageing infrastructure such as underground pipelines is a challenge to facility owners worldwide. Understanding why and how cathodic protection works or fails can help the operator formulate appropriate strategy in managing the pipeline corrosion problems. This 5-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 Corrosion in the underground environment
   2.4 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 CP Design Fundamentals
   5.2 Current Requirement Estimating Methods
   5.3 Calculation of CP Circuit Resistance
   5.4 Calculating System Capacity and Life
   5.5 The 10-Step Guides to the Design of Galvanic Anode CP System
   5.6 The 10-Step Guide to the Design of ICCP System
   5.7 Computer software for cathodic protection design, modeling and corrosion prediction: CP-Compass

6 Stray Current Corrosion and Methods of Prevention
   6.1 Sources of Stray Current
   6.2 Detecting Stray Current
   6.3 Effects of Stray Current on Metallic Structures
   6.4 Mitigation of Interference Effects from Impressed Current Cathodic Protection Systems
   6.5 Other Sources of DC Stray Current

7 Pipeline Coatings
   7.1 Desirable characteristics of pipeline coatings
   7.2 Type of pipeline coatings
   7.3 Pipeline coatings selection
   7.4 Specification and inspection

7.5 Coating failures and analysis

8 Field Joint Coatings

   8.1 Pipeline Field Joint Coatings
   8.2 Factory-Applied vs. Field-Applied
   8.3 Pipeline Coatings Types
   8.4 Field Joint Coatings
          8.4.1 FJC Types
          8.4.2 FJC Performance
          8.4.3 FJC Selection
          8.4.4 FJC Application Procedures
          8.4.5 FJC Application examples

9 Cathodic Protection and Coatings

10 Pipeline Inspection: Survey Methods and Evaluation Techniques
     10.1 Survey methods for pipeline not under cathodic protection
     10.2 Survey methods for pipeline under cathodic protection
     10.3 Overview of NACE Standard on “Pipeline External Corrosion Direct Assessment Methodology”
     10.4 Long range ultrasonic testing (LRUT) technique for pipeline integrity survey
              10.4.1 Definition: What is LRUT
              10.4.2 Conventional UT vs. LRUT
              10.4.3 How LRUT works
              10.4.4 Advantages and limitations of LRUT
              10.4.5 Application examples
    10.5 Emerging technology for cathodic protection current measurement from inside the pipeline
             10.5.1 Introduction to CPCM technology
             10.5.2 Conventional CP current measurement methods vs. CPCM
             10.5.3 How CPCM works
             10.5.4 Advantages and limitations of CPCM
             10.5.5 Application examples

10.6 Modeling and Prediction of Pipeline Corrosion

10.7 End of Course Exam

Who Should Attend

Engineers and technologists who are in charge of underground pipeline 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

Successful completion of this course helps participant prepare for taking NACE certification exams at Corrosion Technician, Corrosion Technologist and Senior Corrosion Technologist levels.

Registration for This Corrosion Course

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In-House Training Corrosion Courses

If you are concerned with corrosion in your company, in-house training or on-site 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 our corrosion courses can be customized to fit your organization's needs.

There is no limit to the number of participants required for in-house training corrosion courses. We conduct the in-house training corrosion course at your company's premises worldwide, and at a time convenient to your company.

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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) or for a small group from your company at a time and in a location convenient to you. This option costs significantly less than a full-scale in-house or on-site corrosion training program.

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Online and Distance Learning Corrosion Courses

All our corrosion short courses are available for online or offline distance learning. You can start an online corrosion course at any time and learn at your own comfortable pace and schedule, whenever and wherever you are. You have around-the-clock access to the interactive and media-rich course materials, virtual labs, course instructions and course assessments. Discussions and questions related to the corrosion courses are posted on the website or exchanged through email for a period up to 3 months. Video conferencing or instant messaging can also be arranged for discussions of course topics. For those who do not have ready access to internet, we can send you our online course materials on a CD-ROM, or DVD, or USB flash drive for offline distance learning.

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Corrosion Course-On-Webex

Webex is hosted by Cisco, a product purpose-built for real-time web communications. If you are an existing user of Webex, or if you are willing to experience the power of Webex, we can conduct the course for you over Webex with audio and video presentations and interactions with the course instructor and other course attendees in real-time. It is just like the physical classroom settings that everyone can interact with each other. Your questions will be answered in real time by our instructor.

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

If you are involved in teaching or training, you may wish to purchase a complete set of the trainer's package for this training course. The trainer's package comes complete with ready-to-use PowerPoint slides (fully editable) and test bank (with answer keys). These ready-to-use PowerPoint slides contain high quality color photographs, illustrations, animations, audio and video clips. The test bank contains questions conveniently grouped into four categories: (1) true or false, (2) multiple choice, (3) calculation, and (4) reasoning and open-ended discussions. The trainer's package is suitable for in-house training and university teaching (30 lecture hours). This is exactly the same package that WebCorr uses to deliver our current training course.

The one-time lump sum fee allows your organization to use the training package and also modify it. For example, your organization may modify the course contents and re-name/re-brand the course under your organization’s name. WebCorr only retains the copyright of the original PowerPoint slides and test banks.

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