The unit will enable tests to be conducted which simulate situations found in the field supporting research and development projects for companies, universities and centres for technology.

CTDUT Executive Chairman Raimar van den Bylaardt said that the pilot test unit would not only allow new technologies to be tested to solve existing problems in cathodic protection but that the unit would also provide the possibility to anticipate the problems of the future.

The unit will be constructed in the CTDUT, which offers full scale facilities and research laboratories designed to test products, equipments and systems used in pipeline networks giving suppliers and operators the resources to test new technologies without jeopardising their operations.