Patent ID: 8888988

Claim:
A method of determining a corrosion potential for a first type of engineering alloy or a similar type of engineering alloy in an aqueous system via an oxidation-reduction potential measuring device (“ORP device”), wherein the ORP device includes a flow-through cell having a plurality of ports, an ORP probe associated with the flow-through cell, a resistance-dependent temperature detector associated with the flow-through cell, and a reference electrode associated with the flow-through cell, the method comprising: (a) connecting either directly or indirectly at least one electrical lead to the flow-through cell; (b) connecting either directly or indirectly at least one electrical lead to the reference electrode; (c) measuring a voltage between the flow-through cell and the reference electrode via the respective electrical leads; (d) determining the corrosion potential of the first type of engineering alloy or the similar type of engineering alloy based upon the measured voltage, wherein the flow-through cell comprises a material of construction including the first type of engineering alloy or the similar type of engineering alloy and a bracket electrically connected to the flow-through cell and said corrosion potential is the corrosion potential of the flow-through cell; and (e) optionally performing actions to alter the determined corrosion potential.