Full Description

Once, external corrosion of water mains was accepted as inevitable; extra thickness was often specified to extend the useful life of the pipe. Today, a variety of techniques are available to eliminate or significantly reduce external corrosion.

Now, water managers and operators can refer to this professional manual of water supply practices to learn these techniques and to get the answers to all of their questions about external corrosion.

You'll get the answers you need to the important questions about pipeline corrosion --

-How and why does external corrosion occur?

-How do you evaluate the corrosion potential of a material and its environment?

-How do you control and prevent corrosion of buried pipelines?

-How do you control and prevent corrosion of pipe exposed to the air?

Product Details

Edition: 2nd Published: 03/01/2004 ISBN(s): 9781583213001 Number of Pages: 96File Size: 1 file , 3 MB