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