Premature pipe failure

[Aavenger]

On a two year old vessel with iccs system salt water pipes
In the cooling system lasting only 6 months.Eaten away
Found shiny pitted areas on sea bay strainer chests,see pics
Anyone seen this before or have suggestions?Also FW Pipe’s on mtu mains premature failure?

[Big Pete]

I suspect that the impressed Current system is either not working correctly or is set up wrongly.
Go back to the Instruction Manual and see if there are set of settings for the "as installed" condition" and see if they are still the same.
It looks as if there is too much current flowing through the system and it is destroying the pipework instead of protecting it.

Merry Xmas

[JK]

Check that the jumper pieces are on the flanges, the gaskets insulate sections of pipe.

On one ship I was on the CE had the main sea strainers coated with Belzona Superglide.

[rodrigger]

have seen this happen on 8 year old vessel. low sea bay suction pipe flange collar erosion all around where the main sea bay valve meet. At dry dock , did thickness measurements and almost 50% wasted away. Rebuilt and machining in suit as per class specification. Next dry dock whole drop pipe will be replaced. No concrete conclusion found and anodes in the sea chest were only 30 ~ 40 % depleted. May have been an inferior weld job at the building yard. ICCP working as designed.

[Aavenger]

Thanks

[Big Pete]

I recently had an email from an old Cadet of mine and he told me that he was on a Diesel Electric PSV, and they had found that the Electromagnetic field from their 3 phase 690 Volt power cables was inducing a circulating voltage in the pipework! Which I had never heard of before, might be relevant.
BP

[Braylonorion]

You need to check that weather it was installed properly or not. Follow steps listed in the manual one by one. I have seen this happen on 6 year old vessel. So, i suspect the system is installed wrongly.

[JK]

Just a thought, there may be a sacrificial section of pipe installed to protect the rest of the system. This is suppose to fail and shouldn't be replaced with other types of materials.

[Revolver]

How much potential is being put into the hull from your iccp system??
What type of anodes?

...2 year old ship...where was it built?

That's pretty impressive...in a negative way, I mean, sorry lol...
Where do you operate and where do you tie up your ship?