Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Bashaer Abdullah Al-Hammad

Hasan Ali Al-Hashmy

Christian Canto Maya

Hamad Al-Saiari

An Internet of things (IoT) based system for deploying volatile corrosion inhibitor (VCI) in order to mitigate soil-side corrosion of an aboveground storage tank is provided. The system includes: a VCI tank for storing the VCI; corrosion detection sensors on a soil side of the storage tank for detecting the soil-side corrosion, generating corresponding detection signals, and transmitting the detection signals over the Internet; a control circuit including control logic for receiving the detection signals, generating a flow control signal, and transmitting the flow control signal over the Internet; and a flow control valve (FCV) for receiving the flow control signal and controlling a flow of the VCI from the VCI tank to the soil side of the storage tank in response to the flow control signal in order to mitigate the soil-side corrosion of the storage tank.

Intelligent system using an IoT architectural framework to control deployment of volatile corrosion inhibitors (VCIs) for soil-side corrosion mitigation of aboveground storage tanks

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Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Bashaer Abdullah Al-Hammad