Smart System for Impressed Current Cathodic Protection Running on Hybrid Renewable Energy

Abstract

The primary objective of this paper is to propose a system for Impressed Current Cathodic Protection running on renewable energy. Generally additional corrosion prevention based on sacrificial anodes, Impressed Current Cathodic Protection and Alternating Current mitigation are installed into underground/ buried pipelines to provide protection against accelerated corrosion to the part of the pipeline that becomes unprotected by a result of degraded coating and stray currents. In this research, studies to determine the amount of power required to shift the potential level of the buried pipeline will be outlined, this will clearly show the load profile of the structure to be protected and from there a hybrid system shall be designed and modelled. This document outlines the reason for hybrid powered Impressed Current Cathodic Protection, objectives of the research and how they will be achieved.