With trends in urbanization, many underground pipelines have been constructed, forming a huge spider web-like network, and accidents in such systems can lead to disastrous consequences, as observed in the Qingdao and Kaohsiung gas explosion…
This work presents a chipless RFID-based sensor for pipeline integrity monitoring in real-time fashion. The sensor monitors the coating lift-off from the pipeline, which is the initial step in external corrosion of a metal pipe. The sensor has a…
With the ever-increasing use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in scientific and industrial applications, the users' desire to ensure their uninterrupted operation over long periods of time could not be fulfilled by relying solely on batteries with…
A review of corrosion monitoring and inspection technologies is presented including descriptions of the available techniques and examples of their application in various industries. The advantages of online corrosion monitoring and inspection are…
In China, there are a lot of high-sulfur gas reservoirs with total proved reserves of over 1 trillion m3, most of which were discovered in the Sichuan Basin. Most high-sulfur gas reservoirs in China, distributed in marine carbonate zones, are…
Corrosion of petrochemical equipment is one of the reasons that affect the process safety and sustainability of the petrochemical industry. To understand the research status of corrosion in petrochemical equipment and explore the knowledge base and…
Sand-induced corrosion and scaling of petroleum pipes is a serious situation that barely knows any solution by conventional or new methods of corrosion control. This is because, the mechanism behind sand corrosion and scaling of petroleum pipes is…
This paper describes the application of the capacitive imaging (CI) technique to the detection of surface features on conducting specimens. The fundamental theory of the CI technique was briefly described. Comparison was made between the CI technique…
In order to improve integrity management evaluation level of pipeline, the fuzzy surfacelet neural network optimized by improved dragonfly algorithm. Firstly, the domestic and foreign related research progresses of pipeline integrity management are…
In this paper, a piezoelectric sensor is used in its non-bonded configuration for non-destructive evaluation of a pipeline segment subjected to progressive corrosion damage. A new non-bonded sensor configuration, specially adapted for small diameter…
Publisher Summary This chapter provides an introduction to the corrosion and protection of casing. Corrosion attacks casing during drilling and producing operations through electrochemical processes in the presence of electrolytes and corrosive…
Corrosion detection is very important in the oil industry to prevent costly consequences of damage from it. There are some techniques for detecting corrosion in pipelines. Backscatter radiography is an inspection technique for cases where the…
The early detection and discovery of small leakages from underground storage tanks (USTs) is an effective means for preventing the spread of contamination to deep soil and groundwater, which is of great significance to the process safety and risk…
This paper presents a new technique for discerning corrosion in steel bars using guided ultrasonic waves with an improved signal processing technique. A mild steel bar has been subjected to accelerated corrosion. Information concerning variation in…
Pipe inspection is a crucial process in any industry and it must be regularly done for the smooth and safe functioning of industries. Manual Pipe inspection is a sluggish and labour-intensive task therefore it is recently replaced by using robots.…
This paper presents a critical review of the main sensing techniques considered for online monitoring of the integrity of alloys steel-made equipment used in process industry. This includes pipelines, tanks, electrical transformers and other metallic…
This chapter highlights the fundamentals of corrosion inhibition, covering the definition of corrosion inhibitors, different classes of corrosion inhibitors, factors affecting the effectiveness of corrosion inhibitors, and different techniques…
Corrosion problems have threatened long-term safe and stable operation of refining units. At present, refining enterprises mainly use corrosion monitoring and detection to identify equipment corrosion states, which has the shortcomings of narrow…
Graphene-based carbon hollow spheres (CHSs) fabrication, doped with 2-mercaptobenzimidazole (MBI) was successfully done in previous work. The active/barrier corrosion protection performance (CPP) of epoxy coatings was evaluated using salt spray test,…
In view of the demand of the present day technology a wide variety of materials are being used for various industrial projects. The design engineer is responsible for selecting the appropriate material for each project. Aside from its physical…
Robotics has the potential to contribute significant benefits for offshore and onshore petroleum industry for the next decades, but in fact has nowadays often the problem of missing wide commercial availability, which means that robotics is in some…
In this study, the influence of various concentrations of molybdate (MoO42-) on critical pitting temperature (CPT) of duplex stainless steel 2205 (DSS 2205) in 0.1M NaCl solution has been investigated by employing potentiodynamic and potentiostatic…
As the principal means of oil and natural gas transportation, oil and gas pipeline systems suffer from common corrosion problems, accurate corrosion prediction of oil and gas pipelines has an essential influence on pipe material selection, remaining…
Routine inspection and maintenance are critical for the proper functioning of civil infrastructures such as bridges, pavements and underground structures. Civil infrastructures are being inspected less frequently because of the high cost and long…
We report near real-time in situ monitoring of prestressed concrete beams using a new fiber loop ringdown (FLRD) strain sensor. The strain sensor was fabricated by integrating a micro air-gap in the sensor head and had a strain detection limit of…
Seawater, which has been frequently applied in cooling and injection water systems, imposes severe pitting corrosion to mild steel. Addition of green and sustainable inhibitors based on renewable sources is one of the promising methodologies for…
One of the most challenging issues in the offshore oil and gas industry is corrosion assessment and management in subsea structures or equipment. The aim of this study was to investigate the corrosion progress characteristics of offshore oil well…
Images of the pipeline can be easily captured by the infrared thermal camera. However, factors such as uneven lighting or the complex and diverse outdoor environment can affect the pipeline infrared image. Under these circumstances, detection of the…
Pipelines are the very important energy transmission systems. Over time, pipelines can corrode. While corrosion could be detected by in-line inspection (ILI) tools, corrosion growth rate prediction in pipelines is usually done through corrosion rate…
The effect of HCO3−(aq) on CO2 corrosion of carbon steel was investigated in deaerated 3.5 wt% NaCl solutions at 30 °C from pH 3.96 to 7.15. In the CO2-saturated solutions, the pH was adjusted with different HCO3−(aq) concentrations, c[HCO3−(aq)].…
Herein, a non-conventional fluorescent polymer (NCFP) was established by coupling in-situ Schiff base reaction with epoxy ring-open polymerization, which were constructed by hyperbranched polyamidoamine (HPAMAM) and bio-based vanillin epoxy monomer…
With the rapid development of the petrochemical industry, sulfur-related devices are increasing. In this paper, a fire accident occurred in a petrochemical storage tank of a petrochemical enterprise. Through analysis, we found that the direct cause…
Traditional corrosion inhibitors are not popular due to high toxicity. Instead, green corrosion inhibitors are appearing. Here, strictosamide as a green corrosion inhibitor was firstly separated from Uncaria laevigata, showing excellent solubility in…
With ever increasing global demand and depleting resources for fossil fuels, oil and gas industry is now positively looking for advanced robotic solutions to increase their productivity and safety. With time easy resources of the fossil fuels are…
Titanium carbide/titanium carbonitride/titanium nitride (TiC/Ti(CN)/TiN) multilayer coatings are prepared on the surface of three high-strength steels (35CrMo, 42CrMo, and 40CrNiMo) by chemical vapor deposition method. The fracture morphology,…
Oil and gas pipelines are very important for fuel transportation, however leakages in them may lead to life and property losses due to the release of the energy they contain. Reliable leak detection and localization techniques that effectively…