Corrosion Monitoring Articles
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Maintaining 25 Ton Gantry Crane
Maintaining a 25 ton gantry crane is essential to ensure its safe and efficient operation while prolonging its lifespan. Proper maintenance practices involve regular inspections, cleaning, lubrication, and repair of components. Here is a comprehensive guide on how to maintain a 25 ton gantry crane: Establish a Maintenance Schedule Create a maintenance schedule outlining routine tasks, such as ...
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Corrosion: What Is It and How to Control It
What is corrosion? Corrosion is the degradation or deterioration of a material caused by a reaction to its environment. In building plumbing systems, corrosion can occur in our piping systems and water-bearing equipment due to reactions, chemicals, and impurities in the water. These processes result in uniform corrosion, pitting, cracking, or erosion, ultimately causing the breakdown and ...
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Maintaining Winch Indonesia
Maintaining a winch in Indonesia, like any heavy equipment, is crucial for ensuring its optimal performance, longevity, and safety. Winches are versatile machines used across various industries such as construction, marine, mining, and forestry for lifting, pulling, and towing heavy loads. Proper maintenance practices not only extend the lifespan of the winch but also minimize downtime, reduce ...
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Maintaining a Steel Structure Factory: Key Practices for Longevity and Efficiency
Maintaining a steel structure factory is essential for ensuring its longevity, safety, and operational efficiency. Steel structures are known for their durability and strength, but proper maintenance is crucial to prevent corrosion, structural degradation, and operational issues. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore key practices for maintaining a steel structure factory to maximize its ...
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Understanding the Installation Requirements for Electric Mooring Winches
Electric mooring winches have become integral components in the maritime industry, offering efficient and reliable solutions for securing vessels in various settings. As shipowners and operators explore the benefits of these advanced winches, it's crucial to delve into the specific installation requirements that ensure optimal performance and safety. In this article, we will explore the key ...
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Tips for Proper Maintenance and Longevity of Rubber Tyred Gantry Crane
Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGs) play a pivotal role in material handling across various industries, ensuring the efficient and timely movement of heavy loads. To maximize the performance and extend the longevity of these valuable assets, proper maintenance practices are essential. In this article, we will explore key tips for maintaining and ensuring the longevity of Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes. ...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Marine Winch Maintenance
Marine winches are indispensable components on ships, playing a crucial role in various operations such as anchoring, towing, and mooring. These robust machines are subjected to harsh marine environments, demanding regular maintenance to ensure optimal performance and longevity. In this article, we will explore the essential steps in marine winch maintenance, offering ship operators and ...
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The Versatility of Mining Winches in Explosive Environments
Mining operations often unfold in demanding environments, with conditions ranging from extreme temperatures to volatile atmospheres. The need for robust equipment capable of withstanding these challenges has led to the development of specialized tools. One such crucial tool is the mining winch, a powerhouse in material handling. This article explores the question: Can mining winches be used in ...
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Installation and Maintenance of Double-Girder Gantry Cranes: Key Steps
Double-girder gantry cranes are robust and versatile pieces of equipment used in various industries for heavy lifting and material handling. The installation and maintenance of these cranes are crucial to ensure safe and efficient operations. In this article, we will explore the key steps involved in both the installation and ongoing maintenance of double-girder gantry cranes. Installation of ...
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How to Ensure Precise Gas Measurement in Solder Reflow Ovens
Introduction In the realm of electronics manufacturing, solder reflow ovens play an indispensable role in ensuring the seamless attachment of components to PCBs. But, the success of this process doesn’t solely rest on heat. The atmosphere within the oven, determined by accurate gas measurement, is equally ...
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Corrosion Testing Redefined: Unlocking the Potential of Salt Spray Chambers
Salt spray chamber, also known as salt fog chambers or salt spray testers, are indispensable tools in the field of corrosion testing. These advanced devices create controlled environments that replicate the corrosive effects of salt spray or fog on materials. Salt spray chambers provide valuable insights into the durability, corrosion resistance, and protective coatings of various materials. This ...
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Key Maintenance Tasks of Marine Winches: Ensuring Reliability and Safety
Marine winches are indispensable tools in maritime operations, serving various purposes such as mooring, anchoring, towing, and cargo handling. These vital components require regular maintenance to ensure their reliability, performance, and, most importantly, the safety of both crew members and vessels. In this article, we will discuss the key maintenance tasks necessary to keep marine winches in ...
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PHMSA Mega Rule RIN-2 - Changes in Cathodic Protection New Requirements for Interrupted Surveys and Deadlines
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is set to make effective Stage 2 [Rulemaking Identification Number 2 – RIN 2] of the Gas Mega Rule Regulation on May 24, 2023 [some limited enforcement discretions in place]. This update will introduce significant changes to the reporting requirements for pipeline operators with new rules that aim to enhance pipeline safety ...
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Electrical Resistance Probe Remote Monitoring a Powerful Tool for Corrosion Prevention
Continuous Corrosion Rate Monitoring of Electrical Resistance Probes and Improved Data Accessibility Are Realized Through the CorTalk RMU1-ER Maintaining an excellent standard of safety and extending asset lifetimes often comes down to having the right data. From strict quality assurance and quality control practices during manufacturing and installation, to monitoring and inspection during ...
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Pipeline Integrity Monitoring Overview
Understanding Pipeline Integrity Pipeline integrity is all about keeping pipelines operating properly throughout their life cycle. From design and construction to maintenance and inspection to decommissioning and retirement, pipeline integrity engineers work to ensure pipelines and their related components are reliable, sustainable, and safe throughout their service life. Pipeline integrity can ...
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Cellular Networks are Retiring 2G & 3G
Is Your Remote Monitoring System Ready? For decades, remote monitoring technology has made it easier for pipeline operators to monitor cathodic protection systems in pipelines that service remote or difficult-to-access locations. With advances in cellular technologies, these solutions have become faster and more reliable. Over the next few years, however, cellular carriers will retire (or ...
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Actioning Big CP Data
Managing & Improving Today’s Cathodic Protection Remote Monitoring Cathodic protection parameters were once measured only by field technician teams manually covering miles of pipeline with portable instruments to acquire data points. Measurements were handwritten in logbooks and transported back to the pipeline operator’s office for analysis and storage. Measurements occurred ...
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Make Way for Iridium
IS YOUR REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM READY FOR THE END OF ISAT M2M? For decades, remote monitoring technology has made it easier for pipeline operators to monitor cathodic protection systems in pipelines that service remote or difficult-to-access locations. Due to limited cellular reception in some of these locations, operators and technicians rely on satellite communications to transmit data to a ...
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Cathodic Protection Monitoring Overview
Millions of miles of metallic pipelines are buried underground around the world, providing essential transportation corridors to collect, convey and distribute many types of fluid assets, including petroleum products, natural gas, water, wastewater and more. This important infrastructure, however, is constantly threatened by corrosion. From the surrounding soil, and from electrical interactions ...
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Future-proofing Against Operational and Labor Challenges While Maintaining Critical Infrastructure
Before COVID-19’s arrival, critical infrastructure operators and their supporting contractors were well aware of the need to effectively recruit new employees as more and more skilled field employees approached retirement, while concurrently working to upskill the existing workforce and begin leveraging new technologies to fill the resulting gap. Now, the need (and desire) to work remotely, ...
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