This paper reviews the concerns of applying excessive levels of cathodic protection current to pipelines and the need for establishing an upper potential limit. Coating disbondment, hydrogen induced stress cracks, stress corrosion cracking, hard spots and the problems associated with measurement of a true polarized pipe-to-electrolyte potential are addressed.

Subject
Cathodic protection, Cathodic potential, Reference electrodes, Pipelines, Negative potentials, Metals, Steel, Polarized potential, Electrodes, Stress corrosion cracking, Amphoteric metal, Electrode potential, Hydrogen
Keywords:
Cathodic protection, hydrogen, disbondment, embrittlement, cracking
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2007
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