Pressure-Driven Fiber-Optic Sensor for Online Corrosion Monitoring

Sweeney, Dan; Schrell, Adrian; Petrie, Christian M.

doi:10.1109/tim.2021.3089231

Title: Pressure-Driven Fiber-Optic Sensor for Online Corrosion Monitoring

Journal Article · Mon Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2021.3089231· OSTI ID:1808382

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

For many industrial applications, corrosion is a life-limiting phenomenon and therefore requires careful consideration and rigorous experimental testing before structural materials can be reliably deployed, particularly in harsh chemical environments. The traditional approach to measuring corrosion requires exposing many samples to the intended environment and then extracting them individually at discrete intervals for postexposure characterization. This approach does not provide a high degree of temporal resolution, nor does it provide any real-time information regarding dynamic changes in corrosion rates. Additionally, developing an online corrosion monitor capable of surviving harsh chemical environments could provide valuable information regarding the structural health of components and changing process conditions that could accelerate corrosion. To this end, a corrosion sensor was developed based on a pressure-driven Fabry-Pérot cavity (FPC). This sensor uses a pressure control system to internally pressurize the FPC formed between the sensor’s housing and a metal-embedded singlemode optical fiber. Simultaneous measurement of the change in FPC length using low-coherence interferometry and the applied pressure enables the calculation of the relative changes in the sensor’s diaphragm thickness due to corrosion on its outer surface. Measurements were made in situ while actively corroding the sensor and were validated against surveillance specimens that were corroded simultaneously. The uncertainties in the measured corrosion were analyzed using error propagation of the uncertainties in the measured pressures and displacements and were found to be <1% of the initial diaphragm thickness.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1808382

Journal Information:: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 70, Issue 1; ISSN 0018-9456

Publisher:: IEEECopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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