Cathodic protection modeling
Quick, cost-effective and accurate predictive modeling
Deepwater offers FEM/BEM computer modeling of cathodic protection design to help verify a system's potential distribution and lifetime, evaluate special-case scenarios, determine a structure's remaining CP capacity before retrofitting, optimizing a retrofit solution and aiding and optimizing inspection planning. By offering computer modeling along with cathodic protection system design, review and verification, Deepwater provides a quicker, more accurate and less costly alternative to using outsourced vendors for this service.
Key points
Expert team: Our team of modeling experts are supported by Ph.D-level electrochemists, CP specialists with collectively dozens of years of offshore measurement and Deepwater's data from hundreds of subsea inspections.
Better predictions: Predictive modeling enables our engineers to analyze what-if scenarios concerning coating breakdown, loss of anodes and other structure-threatening possibilities. We can also make more exact predictions on anode consumption and end-of-life scenarios.
User-friendly: Utilizing 3-D structural software with a user-friendly interface makes modeling significantly more efficient. With our live link to CP software, we can easily import or generate structural geometry for our models. For even greater efficiency, we've established a library of in-house retrofit and CP options.
Optimized designs: Modeling allows optimization of CP retrofit anode distributions, GACP and ICCP hybrid systems and sled designs that minimize anode current interferences.
Modeling gallery
Potential profile
Here, the section of a structure within CP protection is shown
Potential profile
Same structure at left where it's more positive than -800mV (not protected)
CP current
Current density distribution on jacket
Pipeline models
Pipeline section protected with RetroMats
Local model of jacket section
Yellow section is mud zone, with anodes distributed on members
Pipeline attenuation plot
Potential distribution on isolation coated pipeline
Jacket leg retrofit
Model geometry of remote anode sled
Wharf CP design and modeling verification
North of Russia, Arctic challenging conditions, ice, low conductivity
Wharf CP design and modeling verification
Wharf at left with RetroMats installed
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