Cathodic protection, proven by decades of service in a variety of applications,
prevents corrosion of buried or submerged metallic structures.
Cathodic protection is most efficiently and uniformly applied when the primary
structure is electrically isolated – (i.e. all metallic/electrical contacts
with foreign metallic structures are eliminated).
Electrical isolation provides three major benefits:
- Restriction of the required protective current to the surface of the primary
structure to produce a uniform polarized level of protection;
- Minimization of stray DC current interference;
- Prevention of galvanic current between metallic structures.
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