Corrosion Control Articles
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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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Solving the Problem of Loose Concrete Formwork Joints
Concrete formwork, also known as shuttering, plays a vital role in construction, providing the mold into which concrete is poured to create structures. The integrity of these structures depends on the quality of the formwork. Loose formwork joints can lead to various issues, including misalignment, leakage, and an uneven concrete finish. In this article, we will explore the common causes of loose ...
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The Complex and Fine Art of Water Treatment for Corrosion Protection
For those of us in the corrosion mitigation industry, corrosion is a relatively straightforward problem. Most corrosion professionals understand that when mitigating corrosion on steel, there are really only four things to consider in disrupting what is called the “corrosion cell.” We have the: Anode Cathode Metallic pathway Electrolyte When all of these come together, a ...
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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 ...
By TestXpert
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Design Considerations for Electric Towing Winches
Electric towing winches are pivotal in various industries, from marine and offshore operations to construction and logistics. These versatile machines play a crucial role in the controlled movement and positioning of heavy loads. Designing an electric towing winch requires careful consideration of various factors to ensure optimal performance, safety, and reliability. In this article, we will ...
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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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Cut Wire
Straightened Cut Tie Wire - Pre Cut To Length Wire For Packing, Binding And Tying Cut to size tie wire is commonly made of black wire, annealed wire, galvanized wire, pvc coated wire and painted iron wire. Gauge ranges from 8# to 23# (wire diameter 0.6mm-4.5mm), length varies according to requirements. Straight cut wires are easy for packing, binding and tying uses. The straightened cut type wire ...
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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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SCADA vs IIOT Technologies - What are the Considerations and why do they Matter?
Technological advances have radically transformed engineering over the past few decades. With the new products, materials, and tools available to them, engineers face a wide range of tools to work with these days. However, while the tools to do the job have evolved, the engineer’s basic objective remains mostly unchanged: reduce failure rates and site operating costs while optimizing ...
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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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Don’t let the Sun Set on your Remote Monitoring Equipment
Be ready with future-proof CP monitoring equipment Communication network sunsets are well underway throughout North America, with 2G cellular anticipated to be fully phased out by the end of 2021 and 3G cellular from many carriers to be retired by the end of 2025. Of course, they will be replaced with much faster 4G and 5G cellular networks, but these evolutionary advancements could cause ...
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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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Safety in MANY Numbers: CP Remote Monitors = Worker Safety + Operational Efficiency
Big data from Cathodic Protection and Pipeline Integrity remote monitoring empowers operations to enhance system performance, protect pipeline engineers, and reduce OpEx requirements. Oil and gas pipelines form a vast underground network that criss-crosses the continent to support the transportation of energy resources from extraction sites to refineries to consumers. But getting these products ...
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The Cathodic Protection IIoT Evolution
New Challenges Are Overcome With Technology That Is More Advanced — And Now More Accessible The CP industry is incredibly dynamic with constant change in regulations, technology development, new products and best practices. The team at MOBILTEX is keenly aware of this and is continually working with customers and industry peers to identify the top trends and greatest challenges that ...
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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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Changes to Pipeline Integrity Management Under the ‘Mega Rule’
A decade in the making, but it’s finally here. In the wake of incidents like the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion and the 2012 Sissonville rupture, pipeline regulations are being updated to put a bigger emphasis on public safety and the environment. Pipeline owners and operators are well aware of the significant overhaul to the Pipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s ...
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