Course highlights
Speakers from a range of backgrounds such as research and academia, inspection, consulting and more provide a comprehensive outlook on their experience in predicting corrosion rates in storage tanks and how to more accurately forecast maintenance and inspection including:
- Understanding what’s happening at the anode/cathode interface
- What to do when probes tell you there is no corrosion, but you have pitting
- Inventory causing tank floor flexing
- Excessive pitting in tank bottoms leading to increased maintenance costs and unscheduled service interruption
- Volatile Corrosion Inhibitor(VCI’s) in tanks, VCIs under tank bottoms
- Corrosion rates and pitting in tank bottoms
- Documenting and reporting internal inspections
- Maximum internal and external pit corrosion
- Sand pad vs tank
- The impact of tank and foundation hull bottom corrosion
Featured lecturers
- Louis Koszewski, Founder and President at US Tank Protectors
- Philip Myers, Principle at PEMY Consulting
- Jim Ellor, ELZLY Technology Corporation
- David Cushman, West Virginia Paint, LLC
Learning objectives
- List common types of corrosion to which storage tanks are susceptible.
- Describe additional ways you can identify corrosion beyond Volatile Corrosion Inhibitors (VCIs) and probes.
- Discuss how changing inventory within a storage tank can affect corrosion.
- Recall best practices in for determining corrosion rates in storage tanks.
Who should attend
Professionals from the following company types:
- Engineering Managers (responsible for the below tasks)
- Operators
- Inspectors
- Consultants
- Asset Owners
- Service Companies
- Third party consulting companies
- Research and Academia
- Engineering & Design Specialty Companies
- CP Practitioners (Testers and Technologists and Specialists)
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