Cathodic protection
Electrolytic corrosion of metals
Corrosion is not a phenomenon that can be completely eradicated, but specific measures can be taken as early as the design and construction stage to significantly reduce its effects and ensure the proper functioning, durability, and safety of the systems.
S2B (Service to Business) is our new cloud platform for management and monitoring of the data coming from field data loggers. The Cathodic Protection Monitoring Module is a tool for visualizing, monitoring and managing the electrical parameters of cathodic protection systems from field devices in a simple and comprehensive manner.
Multichannel data logger for DC and AC measurements, Next is one of Pietro Fiorentini’s Smart Gas Grid devices specifically designed for cathodic protection monitoring.
Kairos is a datalogger for the continuous remote monitoring of the electrical parameters of the cathodic protection systems with an integrated communication module, able to connect in 4G/LTE or CAT-M network technology (with fallback to 2G/GPRS).
Cases of successful projects
The quality of the cathodic protection service is determined in different ways. There are international standards that require the use of the electric potential between the metal structure and the ground as a criterion for defining its protection.
Pietro Fiorentini started developing and creating cathodic protection monitoring systems in 2016. Service2Business is the software able to interface with devices for the monitoring and remote control of cathodic protection systems.
Depending on the technology used, it is possible to implement passive cathodic protection with coatings and inhibitors, or active cathodic protection using sacrificial anodes or impressed current to counteract faults and gaps in the coating caused during installation or by deterioration.
Expertise areas
Biomethane
Unlike other renewables, biomethane requires limited investment in terms of infrastructure. Moreover, regarding emissions, it is considered to be neutral as it is produced via the digestion of biomass from by-products, industrial processing waste and organic material.
Specific incentives promoted at the European level are making its use economically sustainable, and as a result production and use of this source are being strongly encouraged.
Hydrogen
Hydrogen combustion does not release carbon dioxide, but rather steam, and it is easier to transport and store than electricity. This makes hydrogen the ideal ally for renewable energy production.
Today, hydrogen can only be injected into the pipeline network and blended with natural gas up to certain percentages: we are commited to creating systems and devices that can overcome this limit.
Water
Water is a primary resource, a basic necessity for life, and as such requires proper management from all points of view: institutional, environmental and economic.
The sector’s current objective is to automate the process through the digitalisation of water networks, thereby optimising resources and data management to optimise management and minimise the loss of unaccounted-for water, whether through leaks or fraud.
E-fuels
Methanation process has many advantages, including the possibility of storing electricity in the form of renewable methane in gas infrastructures, capturing carbon dioxide for later use, and replacing a fossil source as it can be directly used in heating or vehicles as a drop-in replacement fuel.
Pietro Fiorentini’s technological solution relies on a biological methanation process to generate renewable methane. The biology for this process is developed by MicroPyros BioEnerTec GmbH™, part of Pietro Fiorentini Group.
Gas smart grids
Smart Grids, which integrate different types of energy and make autonomous decisions to optimise energy distribution, are an ambitious project that will, in the very near future, manage energy through networks capable of instantaneously regulating multiple, discontinuous and bidirectional flows.
Power-to-gas
Managing ‘green electrons’ over time and space is important to obtain as much energy as possible when renewable sources such as the sun and the wind are available.
Power-to-gas, a technology that transforms surplus electricity into gas molecules that can be transported over long distances at low cost and can offer the possibility to seasonally store renewable energy, is the answer.
