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Corrosion Control and Integrity Management of Flare Gas Recovery Units

Product Number: MECC23-20160-SG

Author: Mohamed M. Farah; Abdulaziz Al-Qahtani; Ibrahim Zahrani

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

Gas flaring is often a frequent occurrence in the oil and gas industry, where significant unrecovered gas is flared to the atmosphere with wide ranging negative environmental implications such as increased greenhouse emission, and other pollutants that have negative health implications on local populations. However, recent environmental awareness, drive to lower emission and economic benefits associated with flare gas recovery has seen a shift in flaring practice. The recovery of flared gas reduces noise and thermal radiation, operating and maintenance costs, air pollution and gas emission and reduces fuel gas and steam consumption.

Corrosion Control in Petroleum Production, 3rd Edition

Product Number: 37646-POD

ISBN: 978-1-57590-389-7

Author: Robert J. Franco & Timothy Bieri

$148.00

This is a print-on-demand (POD) book that will be produced just for you in 2-5 days after your order. It should arrive at your door in about one to two weeks. However, due to supply chain and logistic challenges currently affecting the industry, it may take longer. Allow three weeks for international orders.

This greatly updated and expanded third edition of Corrosion Control in Petroleum Production is written for non-experts who have the responsibility for corrosion management of subsurface, surface, and subsea equipment used for producing and processing oil and natural gas.

The book provides an overview and reference on the different corrosion threats, the methods for controlling corrosion, and the establishment of a management system based on risk and continuous improvement.

The authors, Robert Franco and Tim Bieri, have distilled over 80 years of personal experience--as well as the experience from multiple reviewers and contributors--into one comprehensive reference.

Included are hundreds of photographs, figures, and tables to illustrate the practical aspects and essential theory of corrosion control and materials selection.

2020 NACE, 536 pages, 6 x 9" trim size, perfect bound, color

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Corrosion Control of CUI in a Refinery

Product Number: 51217-053-SG

Author: Art MacKinnon

Publication Date: 2017

$20.00

This paper will explain how to find CUI (Corrosion under Insulation within a refinery through proper inspection and, damage mechanisms, avoiding premature structural failure due to corrosion.

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Corrosion Fatigue and Chloride-Induced Stress Corrosion Cracking in Sulfur Recovery Units

Product Number: 51324-20691-SG

Author: Saud I Al Otaibi; Mohamud Farah

Publication Date: 2024

$40.00

Sulfur Recovery units (SRUs) are widely used in the oil and gas industry to recover sulfur from refined products and acid gas waste from the natural gas process. This involves routing acid gas rich in hydrogen sulfide through a reaction furnace to produce molten sulfur in a thermal Claus reaction. Central to the operation of the SRUs is the Sulfur storage pit, which is an underground high depth structure used to temporarily store sulfur product before shipment. Sulfur pits contain a range of critical equipment and piping, such as sulfur product pumps and steam coils.The pumps are crucial for shipping the sulfur product, while the steam coils are used for maintaining the molten sulfur temperature between 270-280 °F to prevent solidification and higher sulfur viscosity. Consequently, any impact to the integrity of this equipment impacts the unit’s operational efficiency or worse, leads to total unit shutdown. This equipment is susceptible to a range of damage mechanisms resulting from both operational conditions, such as sulfuric acid corrosion and environmental cracking, resulting from steam leakage and ground water seepage respectively. This paper investigates sulfuric acid corrosion and corrosion fatigue — in sulfur pumps — resulting from the synergistic effects of both dynamic loading and chloride-induced pitting corrosion. The steam coils in the pit were also found to suffer from both sulfuric acid corrosion and chloride stress corrosion cracking. These damage mechanisms were determined following extensive metallurgical analysis of samples recovered from the pit. Furthemore, laboratory compositional analysis from various samples collected from the pumps and the pits showed significant quantity of sodium chloride, resulting from ground water ingress alongside corrosion, and cementitious products, such as iron sulfide, quartz – SiO2 and iron sulfate. These findings, alongside sample results of the post-inspection findings for the sulfur recovery unit pit and equipment, will be highlighted and discussed. Effective mitigations, including the use of permanent dewatering, will also be discussed.

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Cost Effective Solutions for Aging Water Storage Tanks TANK REFURBISHMENT VERSUS REPLACEMENT

Product Number: 51218-096-SG

Author: Nick Bressler

Publication Date: 2018

$20.00

When WIT Inc. was asked to rehabilitate the Alta Vista Standpipe, the first order of business would be to conduct a comprehensive tank evaluation in order to determine the overall condition, and also, to compile an inventory of deficiencies, repairs and upgrade objectives so that the project manual for the bid phase would include all necessary work to bring the tank to current AWWA standards.

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Digital Generation of Eddy Current Testing (ECT) for Inspection of Surface and Near-Surface Defects

Product Number: MECC23-20114-SG

Author: Lutfallah, Muhammed H; Hammali, Ahmed Y; Felemban, Tamim O; Alismail, Mohannad A

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

In oil & gas industry, solid metal equipment such as pipelines, pressure vessels, heat exchangers and valves are susceptible to surface and sub-surface cracks and discontinuities attributed to cyclic loading and severe operating conditions. These anomalies affect the safety, structural functionality, reliability, integrity and life cycle of the equipment and if not detected timely, they could lead to catastrophic incidents. Consequently, this gave rise to the importance of different Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) methods and their abilities to detect and characterize surface discontinuity providing useful information to the structural integrity assessment.

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Distribution of Corrosion Attacks in Sour Pipelines – A Parametric Study

Product Number: 51323-18981-SG

Author: Abdulrahman Alqahtani, Layan AlSharif, Faisal Abbas, Christian Canto Maya

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

In pipeline corrosion management practice, one challenge is how to locate the most corrosive area along the right-of-way of an existing pipeline. Pipeline networks are complex systems containing different grades of multiphase crude oil coming from dissimilar reservoirs, which results in fluids having dissimilar chemical and physical properties along each network. The fluid starts flowing into a pipeline at a certain pressure, temperature, and associated velocity.

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Electronic Inspection Equipment For A Field Painting Project

Product Number: 51218-087-SG

Author: Cory Allen

Publication Date: 2018

$20.00

Inspection of coating applications is more efficient and effective by the use of electronic equipment, which can store, transmit, and populate inspection reports with data. Field collection of inspection data points by manual note taking is being replaced with instruments that can capture and record metal thickness, coating film thickness, surface profile depth, surface contamination, environmental conditions, gloss levels of coatings, and adhesive pull-off strength of coatings. Electronic collection of data produces more accurately and statistically complete information than manual collection.

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Equifinality: Specifying Performance

Product Number: 41216-963-SG

Author: Troy Fraebel, Tony Ippoliti

Publication Date: 2016

$20.00

The authors look toward the future of specifying coating projects starting with the traditional prescriptive, means-and-methods, coating formula-based specifications. The popular qualified product list (QPL) approach is presented along with its drawbacks. The design/build (DB) ideal and limitations of specifying only performance is presented.

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Erosion Corrosion Phenomena In Oil And Gas Facilities: Evaluation And Monitoring

Product Number: 51322-17665-SG

Author: Raquel Araujo, Mioara Stroe, Kuate-Teku Rheingold, Igor Pipas, Francisco Mateus-Garcia, Laurent Dehays

Publication Date: 2022

$20.00

High flow velocity can have negative impact on the integrity of the oil and gas production equipment. This negative impact can manifest by the reduction of Corrosion Inhibitor (CI) efficiency: the higher the flow velocity, the lower the CI efficiency. The negative impact can also manifest by the occurrence of liquid erosion corrosion phenomena.

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Flexible Measurement Solutions for Industrial Painting and Inspection Applications

Product Number: 41214-833-SG

Author: Paul Lomax

Publication Date: 2014

$20.00

Structures are made of different substrates and materials. In order to protect these structures from the impact of corrosion, virtually everything is coated with some combination of paints, lacquers, epoxies, and thermoplastics. Inspecting structures requires multiple types of tests including measuring the thickness of a wide variety of protective coatings. This paper will discuss flexible measurement devices and how the utilization of various probes provides the best measurement results for specific applications.

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Fluorescent (OAP) Coatings Inspection Safety

Product Number: 41213-750-SG

Author: David H. Sliney, Terry L. Lyon, Paul D. Gossen

Publication Date: 2013

$20.00

The Optically Active Pigmented (OAP) coatings inspection process was developed by NAVSEA around 2004 to increase the speed and accuracy of tank coatings inspections. In an OAP inspection, violet LED inspection lights illuminate special tank coatings that fluoresce to increase the contrast between coated and uncoated steel.

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