COSASCO CORROSION UNDER INSULATION （COSASCO腐蚀下绝缘）.pdfVIP

® COSASCO CORROSION UNDER INSULATION (CUI) CORROSION SENSORS Detect Corrosion Under Insulation with Patented, Low Cost, ® Cosasco CUI Sensors No Removal of Insulation Required! Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) is recognized as a major corrosion problem, which costs the oil gas, chemical petrochemical, and food processing industries millions of dollars a year in inspection, repair, and replacement costs. CUI can be detrimental to the integrity of an insulated pipeline or vessel if not detected early on, causing leaks leading to possible catastrophic events. As the pipe surface is not normally accessible, the current methods of detecting CUI can be expensive and may require the removal of the insulation and cladding. These include visual inspection, radiography, thermal imaging, moisture detectors, and moisture removal methods. These techniques in general, do not give reliable, or a direct indication of corrosion, even if there is moisture present in the insulation. RCS offers three low cost methods of monitoring CUI including, Continuous Insulated Braid “corrosion fuse” Wire (Type 1), Inserted “corrosion fuse” probe array (Type 2), and CUI Corrosometer® Probe (Type 3). These three techniques offer direct corrosion detection and a much lower cost per monitoring point than existing methods and may be customized to meet individual requirements and applications to fit with any plant integrity management program. CONTINUOUS WIRE “CORROSION FUSE” FOR DETECTION OF CORROSION OVER A RELATIVELY LARGE AREA The single wire can be used as a ‘corrosion fuse’ to indicate that an amount of corrosion has occurred. An insulated carbon steel wire of a certain element thickness, or multiple wires of varying thickness, is used as a wire loop circuit that is measured using a simp