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Title: Field Trial of impressed current, sacrificial anode, constant voltage and intermittent cathodic protection on a steel reinforced coastal bridge

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OSTI ID:913179

Equipment has been designed and installed for a field trial being conducted on a coastal reinforced concrete bridge with a newly installed cathodic protection (CP) system. The purpose of the field trial is to determine the optimum form of intermittent CP for protecting coastal bridges. The forms of CP that were considered for the field trial are: (1) impressed current CP as the control; (2) currentinterrupted ICCP; (3) corrosion rate monitoring device controlled ICCP; (4) constant voltage CP; and (5) sacrificial anode CP. Once the test is initiated, the performance of these four forms of CP on a coastal RC bridge and their effectiveness in providing protection to reinforcing steel will be is compared with that achieved by present Oregon Department of Transportation ICCP practices. Details are presented on the set up of the experiment and the logic used to control CP intermittently. The field trial is scheduled to be started early 2007.

Research Organization:
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV (United States); Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), Salem, OR
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE - Office of Fossil Energy (FE); ODOT
OSTI ID:
913179
Report Number(s):
DOE/NETL-IR-2007-092; TRN: US200802%%577
Resource Relation:
Conference: Corrosion/2007, Nashville, TN, Mar. 11-15, 2007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English