Cathodic Protection Design Techniques
- Development of User-friendly
Models for Design of CP Systems for Buried Pipelines
- Development of Quality &
Performance Tests for Magnesium Anodes
- Hot Spot Protection for Impressed
Current Systems
- Developing and Marketing Standardized
CP Software Design
Cathodic Protection (CP) Measurement
- Model for Interpretation of
CP Data
- Relating Redox Potentials for
Field Conditions
- Permanent Reference Electrode
Test Program
- Remote CP Monitoring
- Gap Analysis on CP Practices
and Instrumentation Used in CP
- Evaluation and Comparison of
Soil Resistivity Measurement Techniques
- Seasonal Variations Effects
on Free Corrosion Potentials & Monitoring CP in High-resistivity
Soils
CP Criteria
- Use of Coupons for Off-Potentials
- Requirements for Corrosion Mitigation
- Polarization Formation vs. Polarization
Decay for 100 mV Polarization Criteria
Stray Current Corrosion Mitigation
- AC Grounding Effects on CP Performance
and Pipeline Stations
- Telluric and Ocean Current Effects
on Buried Pipelines and Their CP Systems
- AC Corrosion
Improving Coating Inspection
Techniques
- Evaluation of Holiday Detection
Survey Methods or Techniques
- Pipe Surface Mill Test Inspection
Tool(s)
Improving Coating Selection
Methods
- Coating Requirements for Pipelines
Installed by Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) and
Slip Boring
- Compatibility of Repair Coatings
Applied to Existing Below Grade Coatings
- Fusion Bonded Epoxy (FBE) Defects
from Hydrogen Outgassing at Girth Welds
- Coating Compatibility at Thermite
Weld Connections and Keyhole Pipe Coatings
Predictive Accelerated Test
Methods
- Cathodic Disbondment of Pipeline
Coatings Under Realistic Conditions
- High Temperature Performance
of Existing Pipeline Coatings
- Developing Predictive Accelerated
Test Methods for External Pipe Coatings
Disbonded Coating Consequences
- Coating Failure Consequences
to CP Shielding
- Models for Mitigating Corrosion
Under Disbonded Coating on Steel Pipelines
Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC)
Detection and Mitigation
- Technical Review and Opportunity
Management of SCC
- Assessment of the Aggressiveness
of Various Types of Soils for Low pH SCC
- CP Conditions Conducive to SCC
- SCC Basic Research for Crack
Growth
- Conditions that Lead to the
Generation of SCC Environments
- The Effects of Bicarbonate,
Chloride and Sulfate on Near-neutral pH SCC of Pipeline
Steel
- Investigation of Correlating
Soil Conditions and Initiation Phenomena in Microbiologically-induced
Corrosion (MIC)
- SCC Gap Analysis
- Modeling Coating Deterioration
as a Precursor to SCC
- Role of CO2 on Pitting Corrosion
and SCC
- Permeable Coatings and SCC
Develop an Internal Corrosion
Control Expert System
- Differentiation of Corrosion
Mechanisms by Morphological Feature Characterization
- Internal Corrosion Risk Assessment
& Management of Steel Pipelines
- Pepper Oil Derivatives as Benign
MIC Inhibitors
- Interdependent Effects of Bacteria,
Gas Composition, and Water Chemistry on Internal Corrosion
of Steel Pipelines
- Argonne Rapid Sustained Pitting
Probe
- Internal Corrosion of Dry Gas
System During Upset Conditions
- Determining Inhibitor and Corrosive
Properties of Condensate
- Compatibility of Pepper Oil
with Other Chemicals and Sealants, Process Chemicals,
etc.
