Marine fouling and biofouling can form at all depths and temperatures and is commonly found in vessel's seawater cooling systems. Normally to cool machinery and plant on board all types of marine vessels where there is access to the sea. However this benefits supplying free cooling water, which also causes corrosion and blockage to the cooling water pipeline system as the primary marine life such as barnacles and mussels enters along with seawater and settle on internal surfaces of the pipeline and develop causing bio-fouling which can result in the blockage of pipe-work and restrict or completely prevent the use of the systems which incurs significant repair costs to the ship owners.
Earlier Chlorination treatment has been used to remove this type of marine growth by adding of chloride/ hypochlorite or by electro-lorination. These methods had not been satisfactory solutions due to the accelerated corrosion to the structure and unacceptable environment pollution by environmental.
Our copper and aluminium anodes come in different standard sizes and lengths. The most commonly used sizes are Ø70mm, Ø82.50mm, Ø100mm and Ø120mm.