Over the last several years a growing effort has developed in industry to move electrochemical noise equipment out of the laboratory and into plant and field monitoring applications. The movement of any piece of equipment from the development phase in the laboratory to the plant or field installation almost always involves unforeseen problems and
unexpected difficulties. Two industries that have taken on these challenges and aggressively pursued the development of field-hardy electrochemical noise based corrosion monitoring systems are the nuclear waste storage and the oil and gas industries. Challenges encountered and solutions developed when moving systems developed in the laboratory to the field are described for several applications in the nuclear waste storage and oil and gas industries. keywords: corrosion monitoring, electrochemical noise, nuclear waste, oil and gas corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, pitting, general corrosion