Week 3 Internship Report

Working day Work Sector Learning/Analysis

Monday Field Maintenance Understood the Cathodic

protection system and its
(5-Aug-2019)
maintenance

Tuesday Field Maintenance Understood the procedure and

(6-Aug-2019) principle of pump closing

Understood the layout of field

laboratory and the tools
present in it for a specific
Wednesday Field Maintenance
working
(7-Aug-2019)

Thursday Field Maintenance Understood the solar system

(9-Aug-2019) of wells and its maintenance

Friday Field Maintenance No Schedule

(10-Aug-2019)

Saturday Field Maintenance No Schedule

(1-August-2019)

Submitted by Moosa Naseer

Chemical Engineering, UET Lahore
What is Cathodic Protection (CP)?
The metallic surfaces exposed to an electrolyte have a multitude of microscopic
anodic and cathodic sites. Where anodes are more electronegative than cathodes,
a potential difference is created between them, allowing for corrosion to occur.
The function of cathodic protection is to reduce the potential difference between
anodes and cathodes to a neglected value. This reduction is due to
the polarization of cathodes to the potential of most active anodes. In this way,
corrosion current is mitigated according to Ohm’s law.
Cathodic protection can be accomplished by sending a current into the structure
from an external electrode and polarizing the cathodic sites in an electronegative
direction.