What does cathodic protection of steel tubes mean?
Applied current: a macro cell consisting of a protected metal piece and an insoluble auxiliary component. The negative electrode of the battery is connected to the metal to be protected. The power supplies the electrons so that the metal is not corroded by missing points.
There are two ways of cathodic protection: sacrificial anode, cathodic protection and impressed current cathodic protection.Sacrificial anode: connect a living metal or alloy to a protective metal to form a galvanic cell. The active metal replaces the protected metal to lose electrons so that the protected metal is not corroded.
The corrosion of metals causes great economic losses directly or indirectly. Foreign statistics show that every year due to corrosion and scrap metal materials, equivalent to 20~40% of metal production, the world every year due to corrosion and loss of metal reached more than 1 tons.
