Ams Trace Metals, Inc.

Richard Bacon

Vladimir Dozortsev

Jose Antonio Moreno

This disclosure provides techniques for detecting/inhibiting corrosion of in distribution/recirculation service lines and for using tin dioxide as a surfactant to coat at-risk piping surfaces. For example, disclosed techniques can be used to correlate corrosive conditions with fluid type, source and other environmental parameters, and to treat piping so as to insulate corroding areas. A stannous dosing system, and optionally, associated downstream filtration, can be used to efficiently deliver tin throughout piping surfaces at interest, and thereby facility local tin dioxide surfactant buildup to target thicknesses, at difficult to reach locations. In one embodiment, disclosed systems can be used to build a correlation database that can be used in the automated control of systems taught herein.

Techniques for forecasting and/or preventing degradation and corrosion

This disclosure provides techniques for treatment of aqueous matrices using electrolysis to produce soluble metals. An aqueous matrix of interest is passed through an electrolysis device with at least one consumable electrode, which dissolves under applied current, transferring a desired reagent to the aqueous matrix of interest. In one embodiment, the electrolysis device is used in a water delivery network to passivate hexavalent chromium (Cr6) and/or convert it to trivalent chromium; the electrode can be made of food-grade metal tin, which is electrolyzed to form a stannous reagent, which then reacts with the Cr6. The disclosed techniques provide for Cr6 passivation without requiring the use of concentrated acids or other harmful substances. Long term reagent generation efficiency can be enhanced through the use of cleaning processes which maintain a fresh electrode surface in contact with the aqueous matrix of interest.

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