Elsyca CPMaster is a revolutionary 3D software program for cathodic protection design and optimisation of complex structures: buried tanks, offshore platforms, ship hulls, etc.

Elsyca CPMaster provides the corrosion engineer an intelligent tool for managing operational costs, significantly reducing expensive commissioning surveys and costly repairs while simultaneously making ecological gains.

Elsyca CPMaster results include all data of interest for the corrosion engineer such as structure-to-soil potentials and current density distributions. This enables a straightforward determination of local protection levels in many practical situations.

Detailed documentation and customised on-site training by Elsyca, guide you through the simulation stages:

1. 1. CAD creation: Elsyca CPMaster creates (or imports from file) the complete geometrical configuration (pipelines, tanks, casings, ground beds, …) using state-of-the art CAD tools
2. 2. Pre-processing: Elsyca CPMaster reads the electrolyte (soil) characteristics from file or database
3. 3. Meshing: Elsyca CPMaster automatically meshes your complete configuration
4. 4. Boundary conditions: Elsyca CPMaster handles without any problem impressed current and sacrificial ground beds
5. 5. Solving: Elsyca CPMaster swiftly computes structure-to-soil potentials and current density distributions on all metallic structures in the CP configuration
6. 6. Post-processing: Elsyca CPMaster has powerful visualisation tools within the user environment
7. 7. Optimization: Elsyca CPMaster enables optimization of your CP design by allowing a fast adaptation of the CP configuration and electrical parameters.
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Download the Elsyca CPMaster datasheet.

View a demo of a numerical simulation within Elsyca CPMaster in Document Center > Demo’s.

Elsyca CPMaster is a valuable simulation tool for the CP set-up and evaluation of buried tanks, offshore structures (oil platforms, jackets, ...) and ship hulls, covering aspects of:

• Conceptual design of new cathodic protection systems
• Evaluation and optimisation of existing cathodic protection systems
• Evaluation of on-site measurements

Elsyca CPMaster adds major value to your cathodic protection business by providing:

• in-depth insight into and better understanding of your CP design
• knowledge management: implicit know-how available in the company can easily be captured and accumulated
• enormous time and cost savings from design to installation:
  • CP design “right-first-time”
  • speed-up development and installation of new CP-designs
  • substantial reduction of maintenance and exploitation
• optimization towards corrosion control, effective system performance and cost-efficiency
• differential advantage with respect to competitors

Elsyca CPMaster Key Features:

• Entirely integrated in SolidWorks^® (www.solidworks.com) offering a cost-efficient and user-friendly interface for your CP designs
• File import from numerous CAD packages such as IGES, STEP, CATIA, SAT (ACIS), VDAFS, DXF, PARASOLID, ProE, Inventor, …
• Fast and highly accurate hybrid grid generator, Elsyca MeshingMaster, a product specifically developed for electrochemical simulations purposes
• Robust and prompt numerical solver calculating structure-to-soil potentials, current and ground bed consumption rates
• Powerful visualization tools with optional output to Tecplot®

Elsyca CPMaster Solver Key Features:

• Parameterisation of all geometrical dimensions
• Simulation of 3D CP-configurations with arbitrary complexity (including position and shape of ground beds, casings, ....)
• Interference from 3rd party CP-systems
• Ohmic drop effects in the soil
• Anodic and cathodic reaction polarization behavior
• Impressed current and sacrificial ground beds
• Floating (not contacted) electrodes (such as casings, …)
• Multi-layer soils (changing resistivity)
• Local metal dissolution calculation based on Faraday’s law.

The advanced Elsyca CPMaster process optimisation tool, available as an add-on module, enables a speedy analysis of the effect of:

• Anodic, cathodic, combined and induced interference
• Soil resistivity
• Coating quality
• Structure dimensions
• Shape and position of ground beds
• Imposed current or potential difference

Hardware recommendations :

• Highly performing PC (e.g. P4 3.2 GHz processor, 1MB cache,…)
• Min. of 2 GB RAM (e.g. 4 x 1024 GB)
• Hard disk size > 100 GB
• CD/DVD Read/Write
• Video Card:

   

  for a new PC: NVidia QuadroFX and Quadro4 recommended

  for a current PC: please check on: http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/videocardtesting.html

Software requirements: Windows 2000, NT, XP

Elsyca CPMaster + SolidWorks environment takes only about 100 – 300 MB when no solver is running

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CAD model consisting of UST (underground storage tank), concrete support and 2 sacrificial anodes

Edge and surface grid on UST and concrete support

Computed "off" structure-to-soil potential (with respect to CSE reference electrode)

Computed “on” potential above tank and anodes, measured with CSE reference electrode at earth surface level

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CAD model consisting of freighter (hull, propeller, shaft, ..) with cathodic protection anode system

Edge and surface grid near rudder and propeller

Computed “off” structure-to-electrolyte potential (with respect to CSE reference electrode)

Computed “on” potential with reference electrode at water surface level