Aplicativo para monitoramento de sistemas de proteção catódica por corrente impressa utilizando dispositivos móveis

Abstract

Companies in the pipeline industry are more and more looking for solutions that can increase the safety and reliability of their systems, since accidents involving pipelines can cause serious harm to people and the environment. In order to increase the reliability of their processes, many of these companies work with special anticorrosion techniques. Initially, this paper presents the main techniques designed for corrosion prevention, focusing on cathodic protection by imposed current. By owning a great flexibility compared to other protection methods, this technique is the most used in the protection of buried pipelines, since it can be applied to all kinds of soils. Then, this paper presents a software developed to improve the reliability of cathodic protection systems. Representing an innovation in the field, the application created can significantly contribute to a more efficient monitoring of pipelines and other buried metal structures that are subject to corrosion. The software is user-friendly, brings several interactive features regarding cathodically protected systems, and also has alarm routines and notifications.