Title :
Developed software for cathodic protection of storage tanks
Author :
Nagy, Kareem M. ; Abdallah, E.N. ; Abbasy, N.H.
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng. Dept., Alexandria Univ., Alexandria, Egypt
Abstract :
Cathodic protection is one of the commonly used techniques to control the corrosion of a metal surface by making the protected metal as a cathode of an electromechanical cell. The main issue of this paper is studying the cathodic protection system of storage tanks to develop a software program, which can be used in designing such a system. This developed software program won´t depend only on the criterion of the total required weight of the anodes, but it will also make a check on the required current for the cathodic protection system to cover the current demand for the system. This software is a general one which can be used for any cylindrical storage tank.
Keywords :
corrosion protection; software engineering; structural engineering computing; tanks (containers); cathodic protection; corrosion control; cylindrical storage tank; electromechanical cell; metal surface; software development; software program; Anodes; Corrosion; Materials; Resistance; Software; Steel; cathodic protection; impressed current; sacrificial anode; software program; storage tanks;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Zhangjiajie
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0088-9
DOI :
10.1109/CSAE.2012.6272915