Kerou InstituteKEROU

Safeguarding national networksand high-end equipment in service

The digital foundation for corrosion safety of China’s national infrastructure and high-end equipment, with integrated intelligent protection technology.

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The world’s largest corrosion database4500+ networked monitoring sites

Backed by two national platforms, we close the loop from sensing and transmission to analysis and decision.

Our technology

Sector by sector acrossChina’s national networks

Urban pipe networks, power grids, computing and communications, water networks, and oil & gas, nuclear and offshore.

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500M

Records in the world’s largest corrosion database

4500+

Networked corrosion monitoring sites worldwide

27

National field test stations

50+yrs

Of corrosion testing and data

95%+

Market share in marine-grade and weathering bridge steel

Technology

An end-to-end loop: sense, transmit, analyze, decide

From pA-level corrosion chips to a corrosion AI computing platform — connected, reproducible insight into how materials age in service.

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  1. 01Sense

    The world’s first pA-level high-throughput corrosion chip

    Multi-channel sensors for 4 environment types — atmosphere, soil, water, industry — across 36 scenarios.

  2. 02Transmit

    4500+ networked monitoring sites worldwide

    Covering 6 climate zones, 4 sea areas, 7 soil types and Belt and Road countries.

  3. 03Analyze

    Corrosion AI computing platform

    7,342 steel grades · 66,849 metadata records · 247,784 relational records.

  4. 04Decide

    Online service-life monitoring and smart O&M

    Nearly a thousand systems deployed across high-speed rail, wind power, power grids, pipelines, bridges and tunnels.

Why it matters

Corrosion is the hidden “cancer” of infrastructure safety

3.24%

of China’s GDP is lost to corrosion every year, alongside environmental pollution and major accidents.

  1. 2013

    Qingdao oil pipeline explosion

    Corrosion perforation caused a crude oil leak, with heavy casualties and pollution.

  2. 2021

    Shiyan gas pipeline explosion

    Network corrosion and stray-current interference directly threatened public safety.

  3. 2021

    Miami condominium collapse

    Corrosion of reinforced concrete led to structural failure — a warning for infrastructure resilience worldwide.

Corrosion protection is not after-the-fact repair. It is a safety capability that must come first.

Building a world-class innovation hub for corrosion and equipment safety

Based in Huairou Science City and open to network operators, industry leaders and high-end equipment makers.

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