Technical Program

This is not a final program; specific session times will be posted to this program as the date of the conference approaches.

Topics to be covered:

• Cathodic Protection of dielectric coated pipelines in the water & waste water industry.
• Coatings industry in the regulated California environment.
• AC Mitigation- Sharing the ROW with an overhead high voltage transmission line.
• Cost Benefit of Corrosion Control
• AC Pipe Corrosion-causes, failure analysis, case studies
• Corrosion of ductile iron pipes in soil-case studies and corrosion mitigation strategies.
• Stray Current Corrosion from DC Transit System. How prevalent is it and what are the tell-tale signs.
• Corrosion and its control in the WW industry - H2S, clarifiers, force mains, internal corrosion, case studies.
• Case Study - Cathodic protection of steel H-piles.
• Inspection of bridge structures.
• Case Studies of major catastrophic corrosion failures and how they could have been avoided.
• Oil & Gas pipelines - corrosion control, ECDA, regulations and case studies

Tutorial Sessions:

• Basic Corrosion
• CP Tutorial
• Coatings Tutorial