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Cathodic Protection is the application of the laws of electricity and electrochemistry

Cathodic Protection is the application of the laws of electricity and electrochemistry

Cathodic Protection is the application of the laws of electricity and electrochemistry. In nature these laws demand that electrical equilibrium is reached as described by the laws of thermodynamics. These natural laws are universal and must be obeyed no matter which country or ethnic beliefs prevail.
Psuedo science has been imposed on the corrosion control industry for purely financial reasons. This is corruption.

A physical Cathodic Protection Network exists and consists of all of the conductive paths in the world and all of the sources of electrical energy because the science of cathodic protection is the application of the laws of electricity superimposed over the laws of electrochemistry. Cathodic Protection Network is a global electronic circuit that is altered by the installation of electrical devices that effect the equilibrium between the ground (electrolyte) and each metallic interface with the ground.
 

Cathodic Protection Network is also a foundation that I initated over a decade ago to provide an internet facility and point of scientifically based, technical excellence for professionals who specialise in the application of corrosion control using electricity in a process that has been named 'cathodic protection'.
The reason that I founded Cathodic Protection Network was my dissatisfaction with the teachings of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) and the Institute of Corrosion Science and Technology when I first worked in cathodic protection in the late 1960's.
I immediately found that the method of measuring corrosion was scientifically incorrect. Please left click the 'Introduction' button for an explanation and demonstration of this absolute fact.

Until my invention and introduction of the Alexander Cell there was no way to establish the point (criterion) at which cathodic protection had actually stopped corrosion
This is very important because cathodic protection cannot be computerized as long as there is no criterion that determins the electrical equilibrium between the metal of the pipeline (or structure) and the ground at the location of each coating fault. A computer is an adding machine that must have a zero to start adding from. Gibbs Free Energy proves that there can be no such thing as zero energy in the universe. All measurements of energy are between two values that the instrument has to set a nominal zero every time the meter is used. We must have a system that can relate all measurements in order to make any calculations at all.
The Alexander Cell is an arrangement of coupons in which the actual corrosion current is measured and this current stops when equilibrium is reached. When the Alexander Cell test is carried out it determins the exact equilibrium at which corrosion has stopped at that location. This can then be related to the conventional 'pipe-to-soil' voltage measurements recorded at that location to determine if the pipeline is corroded and if the corrosion reaction is continuing.

 

I presented a paper about this at two conferences in Brazil in 2009 and there has been no critisism or comment to challenge the scientific or technical credibility of this paper. As a result of the first conference I was asked to design and build the training and experimental center at Guararema, SP. Brazil.
I was later asked to present a paper to the European Corrosion Conference but the committee did not understand it and it was not given space. It is of great importance to science and corrosion control so I published it on my website for those intelligent enough to understand it. Click on the 'European Corrosion Conference' button to read the paper.


 

 

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