QUESTION
Brackish water transport from river bed to plant site in Kolkata, West Bengal : Need advice on using cathodic protection methods

We need to transport about 2000 m3/Hr brackish water (TDS-3500) from the river bed to the plant site at a disance of 16 KM . Can you please guide which of the following materials should be selected as the pipe material?
                      1. MS pipe with external protective wrapping and internal painting
                      2. Ductile Iron pipe
                      3. GRP pipe

For MS pipe, do we need to have cathodic protection? and or internal PU lining?

Sudipta Mukherjee
Sr.manager, CESC Limited
Kolkata,India
sudipta.mukherjee@cesc.co.in

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1 September 2008