Cathodic protection of steel in reinforced concrete with electroosmotic treatment
    1.
    发明授权
    Cathodic protection of steel in reinforced concrete with electroosmotic treatment 有权
    用电渗处理钢筋混凝土中钢的阴极保护

    公开(公告)号:US06419816B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-07-16

    申请号:US09761388

    申请日:2001-01-16

    CPC classification number: C23F13/04 C23F2201/02 E04C5/015

    Abstract: Combining an electroosmosis direct current (EP) applied at less than 1 mA/Mcm3 (milliamp per 1000 cm3 of concrete) with an anode placed adjacent an outer surface of reinforced concrete soaked with a substantially neutral saline solution, effectively depletes corrosive anions in the concrete even when the direct current is in the range from 0.01 mA to less than 1 mA and at a voltage less than 100 V. Further, using such electroosmotic treatment as a first treatment, and promptly following it with cathodic protection, preferably by an impressed cathodic current (CP) at a comparably low voltage, the current density of CP required for cathodic protection is unexpectedly reduced. This decrease in the required current density of impressed current CP, coupled with low installation and operational costs of the novel system, improves the efficiency of a conventional cathodic protection system, whether by impressed current or with sacrificial anodes, several fold, as high as by a factor of 3 to 30 times. Both processes may be operated together without one circuit interfering with the other.

    Abstract translation: 结合以小于1mA / Mcm 3(毫安/ 1000cm 3混凝土)施加的电渗直流(EP)与邻近于用基本上中性的盐水溶液浸泡的钢筋混凝土的外表面放置的阳极,有效地消耗了混凝土中的腐蚀性阴离子 即使当直流电流在0.01mA至小于1mA的范围内并且电压低于100V时。此外,使用这样的电渗处理作为第一处理,并且随后通过阴极保护,优选地通过阴极保护阴极 电流(CP)在相当低的电压下,阴极保护所需的电流密度意外降低。 压缩电流CP的所需电流密度的降低以及新型系统的低安装和运行成本,提高了常规阴极保护系统的效率,无论是通过外加电流还是牺牲阳极,几倍,高达 是3到30倍的因子。 两个过程可以一起操作,而没有一个电路干扰另一个。

    Tarnish inhibiting composition and article containing it
    2.
    发明授权
    Tarnish inhibiting composition and article containing it 有权
    防腐组合物和含有它的物品

    公开(公告)号:US07261839B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-08-28

    申请号:US10676760

    申请日:2003-10-01

    Abstract: An effective tarnish inhibiting (“TI”) polymer composition including a scavenger for hydrogen sulfide optionally in the presence of an acid gas such as sulfur dioxide, provides excellent protection against tarnishing of the lustrous surfaces of a silver object. When the composition is thermoformed into a box-like container or extruded as film which contains uniformly dispersed solid micron-sized particles of the scavenger chosen from zinc oxide and a silicate of an alkali metal in an amount no greater than 5% by weight of the polymer, it is transparent so that the condition of the stored silver may be assessed. A solid inert adjuvant may be added. All solid particles in the material have a primary particle size smaller than 53 μm which makes it possible to obtain the uniform dispersion. A silver object may be wrapped in the film, or stored in a sealed box so that the solid particles in the polymer are not coated on the surfaces of the silver object.

    Abstract translation: 包含任选在存在酸性气体如二氧化硫的硫化氢的清除剂的有效的晦暗抑制(“TI”)聚合物组合物提供极好的保护,防止银物体的光泽表面的变色。 当将组合物热成型为盒状容器或挤压成膜时,该膜含有均匀分散的固体微米尺寸的清除剂颗粒,其选自氧化锌和碱金属的硅酸盐,其含量不超过5重量% 聚合物,它是透明的,以便可以评估所储存的银的状况。 可以加入固体惰性佐剂。 材料中的所有固体颗粒具有小于53μm的初级粒度,这使得可以获得均匀的分散体。 银物可以被包裹在膜中,或者存储在密封盒中,使得聚合物中的固体颗粒不被涂覆在银物体的表面上。

    Cathodic protection of reinforced concrete with impregnated corrosion inhibitor
    3.
    发明授权
    Cathodic protection of reinforced concrete with impregnated corrosion inhibitor 有权
    用浸渍缓蚀剂对钢筋混凝土进行阴极保护

    公开(公告)号:US06387244B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-05-14

    申请号:US09761387

    申请日:2001-01-16

    CPC classification number: C23F13/04 C23F2201/02 E04C5/015

    Abstract: A steel-reinforced structure supplied with an aqueous solution of an inhibitor for the strucutre, is further protected against deterioration when an impressed cathodic current is applied; preferably the structure is continuously bathed in the inhibitor solution; flow of the first impressed current is maintained until flow is relatively constant at a level at least one-half the level at which the first impressed current was initiated. The concentration of ions is sensed by measurement of the current flow while maintaining a chosen voltage. The inhibitor solution may be used in conjunction with an electroosmotic current to drive ions into the concrete and towards the steel; this may be done prior to applying the cathodic impressed current, or concurrently therewith by providing secondary electrodes. Program controller means in the power station switches from one mode of delivery to another when current usage, measured by current density, is deemd to have become uneconomical.

    Abstract translation: 提供了用于结构的抑制剂的水溶液的钢筋结构进一步被保护以防止施加阴影电流时的劣化; 优选地,结构连续地浸泡在抑制剂溶液中; 第一外加电流的流动被维持,直到流动相对恒定为起始第一外加电流的水平的至少一半的水平。 通过测量电流来检测离子的浓度,同时保持所选择的电压。 抑制剂溶液可以与电渗电流结合使用以将离子驱入混凝土并朝向钢; 这可以在施加阴极外加电流之前进行,或者通过提供次级电极同时进行。 当电流密度测量的当前使用被认为变得不经济时,电站中的程序控制器装置从一种传送模式切换到另一种模式。

    Doubly-protected reinforcing members in concrete

    公开(公告)号:US06358397B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-03-19

    申请号:US09663958

    申请日:2000-09-19

    CPC classification number: G01N17/02 C23F13/04 C23F2201/02

    Abstract: A concrete structure is reinforced with steel rebars coated with essentially pure aluminum in the range from about 0.25 mm to 2 mm thick upon which aluminum coating is an aluminum oxide layer in the range from 0.1 &mgr;m to 100 &mgr;m thick. This layer of aluminum oxide and/or hydrated aluminum oxide is referred to as a combined aluminum oxide layer, and it is in direct contact with the concrete. The Al-coated rebars may be protected in a galvanic circuit using magnesium or other metal baser than aluminum as a sacrificial anode, but more preferably the rebars are cathodically protected with an impressed cathodic current the current density of which is derived by sensing the corrosion potential at a sensing member of essentially pure aluminum embedded in the concrete, or in concrete outside a zone immediately surrounding the rebars, measuring the corrosion potential at the sensing member relative to a reference electrode until the value stabilizes at a measured stable potential; then providing an impressed current at a potential in the range from about 150 mV to less than 300 mV lower than the corrosion potential of the sensing member.

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