Corrosion detector using an array of planar Cu electrodes is demonstrated. The planar Cu electrodes are patterned from commercially available single-sided printed circuit board (PCB). The ten electrodes exhibit anodic and cathodic characteristics by…
The industrial world of oil and gas involves critical processes and machinery for the exploration, extraction, refining, transporting and marketing petroleum products. Oil and gas companies need to control, monitor, maintain and secure the processes…
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…
Existing protocols (e.g., ASTM D 1275-B standard test method) applied to detect and monitor sulfur corrosion in transformer insulating oils are imprecise as it depends on visual observation. As a solution, thin-film sacrificial copper strips are…
A strain based corrosion sensor for the detection of environmental corrosion of pre-stressed structures was developed and tested on mild steel specimens readily available. Theoretically, a beam shaped specimen under a displacement load exhibits 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…
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…
The world of oil pipelines is subjected to serious issues due to occurrences of toxic spills, explosions and deformations like particle deposition, corrosions and cracks due to the contact of oil particles with the pipeline surface. Hence, the…
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…
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.…
Petroleum pipelines are best mode of transportation of crude oil, refined oil and by products of petroleum not only within the country but outside as well. Within the refinery these pipelines are in form of heater tubes and pipes linked/ connected to…
Injection of water into wells is a common practice in offshore oil and gas installations, and here as in many other industries the water has to be deaerated before it is sent through miles of pipelines to reduce the risk of corrosion in those…
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…
Wireless Sensor Nodes (motes) have witnessed rapid development in the last two decades. Though the design considerations for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely discussed in the literature, limited investigation has been done for their…
Sensors are perhaps the most important and integral components of our modern society. With global warming and environmental pollution garnering ever-increasing attention, as well as solutions for sustainabile and smart cities, the optimized…
Corrosion is known as the gradual destruction of materials, leading to structural integrity loss and deteriorates the surface function. Regarding sewage pipelines, corrosion is vital due to its substantial financial, health, and safety costs for…
With the cost reducing and efficiency increasing background in the oil and gas industry, due to the huge cost advantage, the application of acoustic emission detection technology in storage tank bottom corrosion has gradually expanded. Firstly, the…
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…
The X-ray transmission imaging technology is often used for nondestructive testing outside the pipe, but for deep buried petroleum pipelines, its equipment cannot meet environmental layout requirements and one side accessible detection devices are…
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…
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,…
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…
Ultrasonic guided waves can propagate over long distances in process pipe and have demonstrated excellent sensitivity to viscous coatings on the inner surface of piping commonly used in the processing of dairy products. This technology shows…
Traditional corrosion inhibitors make great contribution to metal protection, but also cause environmental pollution. To solve the problem, plant extracts as green corrosion inhibitors have attracted much attention in recent years. Plants are good…
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…
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…
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…
A system to detect the corrosion of submarine oil pipeline is introduced, it got the original data by 3 groups ultrasonic sensors and flux leakage sensors. We made multiscale wavelet transform and frequency analysis to multichannels original data and…
A system to detect the corrosion of submarine oil pipeline is introduced, it got the original data by 3 groups ultrasonic sensors and flux leakage sensors. We made multiscale wavelet transform and frequency analysis to multichannels original data and…
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…
Steel casing pipes used in underground gas storage or in oil fields are subjected to corrosion. Corrosion frequently causes some pitting or wall thinning to the internal or external of casing pipes. More serious corrosion would form holes on the…
Corrosion monitoring and early detection of pits and wall thinning for casing pipes are considerably important to gas and petroleum industries since the frequently occurring corrosion at the internal or external parts of those steel casing pipes used…
A system to detect the corrosion of submarine oil pipeline is introduced, it got the original data by 3 groups ultrasonic sensors and flux leakage sensors. We made multiscale wavelet transform and frequency analysis to multichannels original data and…
This chapter reviews pipeline dewatering, cleaning, and drying. Dewatering can be a simple process or, if the procedure is not properly planned, a difficult one. Pipelines used to transport crude oil and/or refined products will probably only require…
The corrosion effect on the steel bar in reinforced concrete is one of the major issues for the durability of concrete throughout the world. The service life of each type of building structure is severely damaged by reinforcement corrosion, which…
Different industries use different types of metals in their manufacturing processes, as these metals can be found in devices, liquid lines, or enclosures used in their work. These metals are sometimes exposed to an aggressive environment. In this…
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…
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 work reports the design of supramolecular polyurethane coating capable of early corrosion reporting and efficient self-healing for steel protection. Immersion experiment indicates that the occurrence of early corrosion can be rapidly reported…
A sophorolipids (SLs) micro-emulsion in Winsor type I form was used for crude oil contaminated soil washing treatment. The micro-emulsion shows higher oil removal rate than SL aqueous solution and diesel oil. The type I micro-emulsion with w(SLs)=6%,…
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…
For the detection of cracks and corrosion in pipelines an ultrasonic measuring system (pig) was developed. During the pipeline inspection there is no communication to the outside world, the accumulated data have to be stored on a mass storage device.…
The oil and gas industrial sector is nowadays inclined towards utilizing smart field technologies for optimizing various operations of upstream, midstream and downstream sectors. The recent advances in Internet of things (IoTs) have promising…
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…
Many non-standard situations like subsoil slipping, vibrations, ... as well as degradation mechanisms of pipeline materials can occur in the operation of pressured pipelines. The article deals with the mechanisms of the degradation processes and…
Ultrasonic Sensors have long been used for pipeline inspection. The combination of Ultrasonic and eddy current sensors provide great resolution and accuracy for crack and corrosion detection. In this study the authors have integrated multiple…