Profiling corrosion rates for offshore wind turbines with depth in the North Sea

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dc.contributor.authorKhodabux, Waseem
dc.contributor.authorCauson, Paul
dc.contributor.authorBrennan, Feargal
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-06T10:16:50Z
dc.date.available2020-08-06T10:16:50Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-15
dc.description.abstractCorrosion in the marine environment is a complex and expensive form of damage. It is commonly studied by the deployment of coupons that reflect the marine corrosion a structure will experience, thus allowing design and maintenance prevention strategies to be developed accordingly. This study stems from the lack of information in the literature regarding the profiling of corrosion with respect to marine depth in the North Sea where important wind farm developments have been undertaken. To address such issue a field experiment has been designed and carried out in the vicinity of the Westermost Rough Windfarm in the North Sea. The field experiment consists of deploying steel S355 coupons below the tidal area and capturing the effects of corrosion, the mass loss from which the corrosion rate is derived and the chemical products that makes up the rust with water depth. The study involves proper planning and logistics to ensure that the field experiment survives the rough conditions of the North Sea for a duration of 111 days. A high corrosion rate of 0.83 mm/year has been observed in this experiment. This paper goes into the details of the deployment blueprint employed and the analyses of the coupons to provide a conclusive observation and modelling of corrosion with respect to water depth under free or open sea water corrosion conditionen_UK
dc.identifier.citationKhodabux W, Causon P, Brennan F. (2020) Profiling corrosion rates for offshore wind turbines with depth in the North Sea. Energies, Volume 13, Issue 10, May 2020, Article number 2518en_UK
dc.identifier.issn1996-1073
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/en13102518
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/15647
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherMDPIen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectsea depthen_UK
dc.subjectcorrosion rateen_UK
dc.subjectchemical analysisen_UK
dc.subjectmass lossen_UK
dc.subjectNorth Seaen_UK
dc.titleProfiling corrosion rates for offshore wind turbines with depth in the North Seaen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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