• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.1099-1109
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• 2024

As a wide range of industries using iron, such as water and sewerage pipes, gas pipelines, heat pipes, electric engines, communication pipes, and oil pipelines, rapidly become active, there is a demand for reliability and low cost of DC power supplies that can prevent corrosion of pipe networks. In particular, high-efficiency corrosion prevention systems due to changes in the perception of carbon emissions and energy saving are essential elements. Therefore, the construction of a switching-type corrosion current controller is being activated. Also, in such systems, DC/DC converters capable of multi-channel current control are demanded for corrosion prevention functions and uniform consumption of sacrificial anodes. This paper proposes a new current supply system for preventing pipeline corrosion using a low-cost SMPS dedicated chip. The proposed method can maintain excellent parallel operation function, protection function, and response speed by configuring a current controller using a hybrid method using analog and digital. The proposed method verified its superiority through simulations and experiments.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.592-596
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• 2004

Corrosion is never avoided in the use of materials with various environments. The underwater hull is normally protected against rusting by several coatings of anti-corrosive paint. The purpose of ICCP(Impressed Current Cathodic protection) system is to eliminate the rusting or corrosion, which occurs on metal immersed in seawater. The anode of ICCP system is controlled by an external DC source with converter. The function of anode is to conduct the protective current into seawater. The proposed algorithm includes the harmonic suppression control strategy and the optimum protection strategy and has tried to test the requirement current density for protection, the influence of voltage, the protection potential. This paper was studied the variation of potential and current density with environment factors, time and velocity, and the experimental results will be explained.