Research Article
Adaptive Corrosion Protection System Using Continuous Corrosion Measurement, Parameter Extraction, and Corrective Loop
Table 3
The average weight loss per day for the freely corroding and the ACPS protected A36 steel sample in different corrosive mediums.
| Corrosive medium | Average weight loss per day | Protection (inhibition) efficiency () | Increased life expectancy | Freely corroding | ACPS protected |
| 0.6 M NaCl solution | 0.00560 | 0.00071 | 87% | 7.89 | Sink water solution | 0.00784 | 0.00051 | 93% | 15.37 | 50 mg/L humic acid solution | 0.00752 | 0.00004 | 99% | 188.00 | Wet soil bed | 0.00602 | −0.00063 | 100% | — | Dry sand bed | 0.00003 | 0.00002 | 40% | 2.50 |
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