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In recent years, solar energy technology has received particular emphasis in the interest of reducing CO2 emissions. Concentrated solar power (CSP) technology received an initial boost from the installation of nine parabolic trough-based electricity-generating systems totaling 354 megawatts of capacity in the 1980’s. Solar One, operational in 1982 and supported by the DOE and an industrial consortium, illustrate utilization of a circulating heat transfer fluid to produce steam to drive a turbine generating electricity. Solar Two in 1996 demonstrated energy storage so that solar power could be generated during the night.1 In the ensuing decades, additional capacity has increasingly been installed worldwide, comprised primarily of both parabolic trough and central tower CSP technologies, As of 2019, global installed capacity totaled 6.2 GW, with an additional 21 GWh planned of installed thermal energy storage (TES) comprised primarily of molten salts.
Nickel superalloys are of increasing interest in new and emerging energy production applications for their high temperature mechanical properties, stability, durability and corrosion resistance. The precipitation hardenable Ni-Co-Cr superalloy N07740 has been developed for high pressure – high temperature environments and is an ASME code approved material and originally designed for fossil fuel power generation. New applications for the material include concentrated solar power receiver tubes due to its very high creep and fatigue strength in the temperature range 580 to 825C . The solar receiver tubes contain a heat transfer medium of molten salts used to transfer and store the solar energy. Solar receiver technology is also being combined with new ultrasupercritical power cycles which have potential advantages of high efficiency and reduced demand for water in desert environments.
The impact of corrosion on society is enormous. The National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) estimated that the global total cost of corrosion is ~$2.5 trillion (USD), approximately 3.4% of global GDP.1 In 2016, NACE released the “International Measures of Prevention, Applications, and Economics of Corrosion Technology” which estimates that implementing corrosion prevention best General Business practices could result in global savings between 13-15 percent of the cost of damage, or a savings between $375-875 billion (USD) annually on a global basis.
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The formation of mineral scales is one of the most problematic threats to the oil and gas operations which can lead to loss of production, increased lifting costs and assets deterioration.1 Mineral scales can precipitate at any locations within an oil and gas production system and create blockage in perforations, production tubulars, pumps, and surface equipment. The formation of scale deposits can be attributed to the mixing of incompatible waters from different production zones or physical and chemical condition changes associated with produced water transporting from reservoir to wellhead and further to processing facilities.
One can find some of the most aggressive and corrosive environments for coatings in the process work and equipment functions for Oil and Gas Upstream facilities. These conditions have typically been handled using traditional coating options such as vinyl esters, epoxies, or baked phenolic linings. While these products are often tailored to environments with elevated temperatures and pressures found within upstream and “downhole” oil and gas production, the inception of new drilling techniques and the discovery of new shale basins has morphed the landscape of corrosive environments in this market.