Pipeline explosions

Roger Alexander
Corrosion Control Technologist


Conclusions


  • This series of experimental demonstrations started decades ago with the three nails demonstration showing interference or stray current corrosion.

  • This series of demonstrations has already shown that accelerated corrosion and over protection can be visible is 16 hours with an impressed current of 0.5 amps from a 25 volt anode. ( I have personally installed 300 amp TRs in fieldwork so it is feasible that one of the pipelines is the Baltic Sea had such a TR)

  • These experiments have so far proved that we can show accelerated corrosion and from stray current and hydrogen embrittlement from over-protection. We can also gather the required data to computer model and analyse the observations in a repeatable process.