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An investigation into the effect of ppm concentrations of acetic acid on the electrochemical corrosion behavior of API 5L X65 carbon steel in a sour environment. Electrochemical techniques, Linear Polarization Resistance (LPR), Potentiodynamic Polarization and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), were used.
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This case study involves an NPS 36, 107 km long pipeline (Pipeline A) installed in 2016. The subject pipeline is collocated with an NPS 30 pipeline constructed in 1999 (Pipeline B), for the entire route, and two additional pipelines near the start of its route (Pipelines C and D), all owned by the same operator.
Several components in geothermal power plants need to be protected from the environment due to the corrosive nature of geothermal fluids used to generate the energy. Depending on the fluid properties for any location, the type of protection varies. In geothermal power plants, wear, erosion, corrosion, and scaling are all known problems1. These issues can lead to a variety of outcomes, ranging from decreased plant efficiency to upstream component failure. Failure of a component is thus a significant challenge in the geothermal industry, where materials need to operate in high temperature and high pressure environments. A major cost factor is also linked to the drilling of geothermal wells, where cost rises due to increased depth/distance of drilling, increased trip times, higher high temperature and high-pressure conditions which can lead to increased wear and corrosion of the materials. To address the issue, coatings can be considered to be a potential solution to extend the service life of downhole equipment.
Wire ropes with a sheathed spiral strand are commonly used for mooring applications in offshore oil and gas production. Each strand comprises a bundle of galvanized steel wires with a blocking compound applied to the outer layer of the wire bundle to prevent seawater from contacting the internal strands of wire if there is a breach in the urethane cover. The blocking compound and a sacrificial zinc layer on each strand of wire are designed to protect the carbon steel.
Depending on the water depth where the wire rope is being used offshore, it can experience a wide range of temperatures—from 22°C at the surface to 4°C at the seabed. Corrosion behavior of wires at these temperatures is critical, in case of breach in the urethane cover.
Immersion and electrochemical corrosion testing was performed on subsea mooring line wire rope with and without blocking compound in synthetic seawater at 4°C, 13°C, and 22°C. Samples of galvanized wire with and without blocking compound at the lowest temperature (4°C) did not exhibit any iron corrosion products even after 160 days of exposure to synthetic seawater. The corrosion rate of galvanized steel with blocking compound remained less than 2 mpy, while that for galvanized steel without blocking compound remained less than 5 mpy.
Simulation and modeling of corrosion processes is an area of research that has seen significant growthin recent decades, with technological advancements drastically reducing the time required to solve theequations that underpin real-world physics. Predicting the behavior of a system computationally, whendone accurately, provides great benefit complementing experimental testing to further explain what ishappening within the corrosion process. There have therefore been multiple predictive models producedover the years to achieve this aim. Within the realm of carbon dioxide (CO2) corrosion, Kahyarian et al.
It is well known that the hydrodynamics of fluid flow directly influences the corrosion process, as shownin various experiments utilizing rotating electrodes and flow loops to measure corrosion withinturbulent flow. However, when fluid is flowing through a pipe, there is a phenomenon known as the ‘noslipcondition’ which causes the velocity of the fluid to tend to zero as it reaches the wall. For straightpipe flow, this follows the ‘universal law of the wall’ (Figure 1) which separates flow into 3 domains: fullyturbulent flow, the buffer layer, and the viscous sublayer (also known as the boundary layer) which is thebeing modelled here.
Protective coatings exposed to sunlight must withstand multiple environmental stresses: ultraviolet light, moisture, heat, corrosive chlorides and other salts, and atmospheric pollutants. Two decades after the publication of a sequential UV and cyclic salt spray test method in ASTM D5894, some efforts to create better and more predictive test methods have focused on delivering both UV and salt spray in a single chamber and adding additional stresses such as ozone exposure, air pressure fluctuations, atmospheric pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, and other environmental factors.