| Abstract: | Summary The conference recognized that work on corrosion and cavitation protection should be carried out by a centralized industrial
organization, well supplied with the necessary materials and means of mechanization, and staffed with qualified personnel.
At each hydropower station there should be an engineer-manager whose responsibilities include control of the timely and good-quality
execution of anticorrosion and anticavitation measures, monitoring of the condition of protective coatings and the effectiveness
of electrochemical (cathodic) protection. The conference considered it expedient to make during 1975–76 an inspection of the
condition of anticorrosion- and anticavitation-protection measures at all hydropower stations of the Ministry of Power and
Electrification of the USSR (Minénergo), aimed at correlating the experience with, and improvements in, the protective measures.
Standard specifications should be prepared for all protective measures and for the selection of one or another such measure,
depending on the actual operating conditions. The existing standards should be systematically improved.
The conference formulated the basic scientific problems in the fields of corrosion and cavitation protection and considered
it essential to develop a coordinated program of scientific-research work for the next 10 to 15 years, with a clear distribution
of specific problems among the organizations and including instructions on the procedures for the correlation, approval, and
introduction into practice of the scientific results. It was recommended that the problems of corrosion and cavitation protection
for components and equipment at hydropower stations be included in the coordinated works program for 1976–80 of the State
Committee on Science and Engineering, the Council of Ministers (SM) of the USSR. It was also resolved to continue VNIIG's
practice of conducting scientific-research seminars on the most important questions of protection against corrosion and cavitational
erosion.
The conference requested VNIIG to publish the conference transactions in 1975.
Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 3, pp. 54–57, March, 1975. |
