09146 Predicting Coating Holiday Size Using ECDA Survey Data

Wednesday, March 25, 2009: 2:00 PM
C307 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Oliver Moghissi , CC Technologies - A DNV Co., Dublin, OH
Patrick McKinney , Department of Chemical Engineering, Gainesville, FL
Mark Orazem , Department of Chemical Engineering, Gainesville, FL
Daphne D'Zurko , Northeast Gas Association, New York, NY
Equations were developed that improve the accuracy of predicting coating holiday size from common ECDA survey tools. The results of previous simulations performed using a University of Florida model called CP3D were reduced to simple expressions that allow correction for soil resistivity, depth of cover, pipe diameter, CP level, and DCVG signal strength.