Zinc Ribbon Plattline Anode

Alloys Plattline I is an alloyed zinc product and is generally used in sea water or brackish water. It meets the chemical requirements of MIL-A-18001K and ASTM B418-88 Type I. The Super and Plus sizes are normally available from stock.

Typical Applications

· External areas of steel pipe, especially in difficult environments such as below grade in rocky and mountainous terrain, thawed zones in permafrost.

· Interior bottom of AST's.

· Interstitial spaces between old, corroded and new storage tank bottoms.

· In the limited space between inner and outer casings of wells of various kinds.

· For grounding steel tower footings of overhead power systems.

· To provide catholic protection as well as to dissipate include AC current on coated steel pipe.

· For personal safety as well as corrosion protection. To ground valves and test stations of pipelines which are subject to induced AC current and fault currents.

Features

· High Current output to volume ratio.

· Easily conforms to any cathode length or configuration.

· No special equipment is needed for installation.

· Will not cause nor magnify stray currents.

· Generally used in soils of 2000 ohm-cm or less with prepared backfill. However, Plattline can be used in soils with higher resistivity on well coated pipelines with low current requirements.

· Because Plattline is in a continuous ribbon form, there is an even distribution of current density to the cathode.