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 mediumAverage weight loss per dayProtection (inhibition) efficiency ()Increased life expectancy
Freely corrodingACPS protected

0.6 M NaCl solution0.005600.0007187%7.89
Sink water solution0.007840.0005193%15.37
50 mg/L humic acid solution0.007520.0000499%188.00
Wet soil bed0.00602−0.00063100%
Dry sand bed0.000030.0000240%2.50