Steel pipelines transport most of the worlds energy and leak due to preventable corrosion. Cathodic protection is used to control corrosion but is difficult to monitor.


Cathodic Protection Network and EGD have completed construction of a dedicated cathodic protection training centre at Guararema SP Brazil.
Research & Development work is taking place and the first training courses have been successfully carried out. The facilities are now fully funtional and training courses, conferences and seminars are now available.


This is a message from the founder of the Cathodic Protection Network, Roger Alexander.


I devised DCVG in 1975 and was part of the team that developed CIPS in 1980-4.

DCVG is one of the most accurate methods of detecting coating faults on pipelines
DCVG

and CIPS is internationally approved as a method of monitoring the condition of pipelines.
CIPS

It is now recognised that neither of these surveys can predict corrosion or determine the effectiveness of cathodic protection.
Cathodic Protection Network has the solution to this problem.


The 'Alexander Cell' is a corrosion cell constructed in such a way that the corrosion current can be measured.
A demonstration of the benefits of this new technology can be seen by clicking this link
Demonstration.

CPN has an on-line, interactive training course that is being studied world wide.
I have decided that this course will be free and that my software will be developed as 'open source'.
I am 71 years old and the only reason that this technology is not in world wide use is because of
money.
Even the leading scientific organisations of the developed world are totally motivated by the need to make a financial profit and to compete with all other scientific bodies. This has corrupted the science and technology of cathodic protection.
I have decided that the only way to advance the engineering credibility of cathodic protection is to give away my technology for free.
Students of the course need no qualifications to join in the study and the test at the end of each module is to write a report to show an understanding of that module. This report will be added to the total knowledge of all participating in the network.
On satisfactorily completing each module the student will be able to scrutinise the reports of students who complete that module later.
In this way the course will continuosly improve.
I want it to be 'our course' and I want to be able to say 'we' instead of 'I'.

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