Multiple Usefulness of Corrosion Monitoring Technique

Corrosion Monitoring is an essential technique for maintaining awareness of the condition, managing the integrity and service life of industrial systems and assets. It is a fantastic way of identifying how corrosive the fluids are within a specific environment. The multiple techniques used in corrosion monitoring can prove highly useful to get frequent, short time interval measurements, thereby allowing the day-to-day control of corrosion prevention/mitigation approaches such as corrosion inhibition.

Numerous real-time corrosion monitoring programs in diverse branches of industry have revealed that the severity of corrosion damage is rarely uniform with time. A wide range of corrosion monitoring techniques are available, here we are highlighting the most popular techniques.

• Ultrasonic
• Weight-loss coupons
• Corrosion coupons
• Field Signature MethodTM
• Electrical resistance (ER)
• Spool pieces
• Electrochemical noise probes
• Linear polarization resistance (LPR)
• Hydrogen penetration
• Hydrogen electrochemical patch probes
• Galvanic probes
• Bioprobes

Why use Corrosion Monitoring?

• For exact calculation of the remaining life of the equipment that are using in the project.
• Minimizing the entire maintenance costs of the project.
• Accurate detection and monitoring of corrosion.
• It evaluates the efficiency of certain corrosion control methods like optimal application determination and chemical inhibition.
• It can diagnose a specific corrosion problem and also identify the causes and parameters for controlling it like flow rate, temperature, pressure and more. 
• Identify potentially hazardous conditions, corrosion rates determination, discovering material non-compliance and locating structural flaws.
• Conducting inexpensive maintenance exercise and inspection on the items with a high probability of failure.
• Promote a successful health, safety and environmental (HSE) management program.
• Smooth transition from a reactive to a proactive safety culture.

Real-time corrosion measurements is a popular NDT inspection technique in Singapore, that has immense effectiveness for preventing and controlling corrosion and the determination of optimal applications.