Nearly every home has one. Water heaters are ubiquitous in buildings, though they are not all the same. In most cases we heat and store water in a tank which has either electric elements or a gas ...

Nearly every building has a water heater. While many are operated by resistance-type heating elements, the majority of them are gas fired. That sheet metal cylinder you see conceals thermal insulation ...

Q: Recently, you wrote about replacing a water heater’s drain valve. A friend told us that we should also check the anode rod. Is this worth checking? If so, how do we do that? A: An anode rod is a ...

(Above) Harrisonburg Public Utilities Technician II Lincoln McQuillan welds a line connecting a water pipe to a magnesium anode. Photo courtesy City of Harrisonburg. At the Harrisonburg Department of ...

It’s not uncommon for today’s water heaters to fail once they reach seven to 10 years of age. A big reason for this is the eventual erosion of the appliance’s steel tank, thanks to corrosive minerals ...

Achieving high-performance anodes relies on the coupled effects of interfacial electric fields and controllable deposition morphology. Previous strategies, such as interface modification, structural ...

A recent survey of magnesium sacrificial anode cathodic protection systems installed on Bahrain Petroleum Co. (BAPCO) pipelines in 1998 revealed that many of the anodes had failed prematurely and ...