1999 Volume 48 Issue 6 Pages 338-344
This paper introduce stray current corrosion control and the committees related this problem, after described generation mechanism and control.
Some problems of stray current corrosionarose immediately after construction of electric railway in Japan, in 1895. To solve this problems, the study was started and continued for 100 years up to now. Until the Taisho Era (-1926), major subject of the study was improvement of raiway return circuits, and drainage systems on underground metallic piping were added in the early Showa Era (1926-). After World War II, the study was resumed and plastic cable, coating systems for steel pipes, and impressed current systems for practical use, have been developed until now.
The Study Committee on Stray Current Corrosion was established in 1933 by academic specialists, engineers of various utilities, and government authorities, and it has been still continuing research activities. The Co-ordinated Committees on Stray Current Corrosion were established in 5 districts. And these committees started research activities to solve problems such as co-ordinated interference.
