Engineers and operators who deals with cathodic protection and all corrosion departments for chemical, petrochemical, oil, gas and plant equipments and pipelines.

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions   

Cathodic protection principles:

• Reasons for cathodic protection
• Reasons why metals corrode
• Factors that affect corrosion rate of underground and marine
• structures
• How cathodic protection works
• Calculating current requirements 

Design criteria for Cathodic protection systems:

• Operations and applications of galvanic anode systems
• Calculating galvanic anode driving potential
• Calculating circuit resistances of galvanic anode systems
• Operation and applications of impressed current systems
• Selecting impressed current anode bed sites
• Calculating maximum driving voltages for dc power sources
• Calculating circuit resistances of impressed current systems

Designing cathodic protection systems

• Designing cathodic protection systems for buried pipelines
• Designing cathodic protection systems for onshore well casings
• Designing cathodic protection systems for vessel and tank interiors
• Designing cathodic protection systems for in-plant facilities
• Designing cathodic protection systems for marine structures

Monitoring cathodic protection systems:

• Locating buried pipelines
• Measuring structure-to-electrolyte potential
• Measuring cathodic protection current
• Performing a well casing survey inspecting the condition and
• operation of a cathodic protection rectifier

Maintaining cathodic protection systems

• Ensuring adequate protection of buried pipelines
• Ensuring adequate protection of onshore well casings
• Ensuring adequate protection of vessel and tank interiors
• Ensuring adequate protection of in-plant facilities
• Ensuring adequate protection of marine structures

Special operating problems

• Recommending corrective actions to reduce the effects of interference
• Recommending corrective actions to reduce the effects of electrical shielding
• Recommending corrective actions to reduce the effects of coating defects
• Locating a short circuit in a cased crossing 

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing a minimum of 80% of the total course duration.