Application examples of the differential flow cell-based corrosion monitoring technique under both laboratory and field applications in cooling water systems are described. The cooling water system application examples include the following: (1)…
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…
This chapter reviews established methods in detecting corrosion for fiber-reinforced polymer composites during their service life. Corrosion of fiber-reinforced polymer composites leads to mechanical properties degradation such as strength,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“Insulator-conductor” composite structures have been extensively used in a vast number of fields in recent years. However, due to different factors including but not limited to environmental and adverse working conditions, the interface between 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…
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…
Natural gas distribution station (NGDS) is an important facility established for providing natural gas to urban users along long-distance pipeline. The reasons, such as corrosion, material aging, misoperation, etc., lead to the leakage of the NGDS,…
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…
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…
The ultrasonic thickness measurement technique is a corrosion monitoring technology, which is widely used, but testing workers have been troubled by how to accurately locate corrosion of key parts. In this paper, the acoustic emission technique was…
Tank floor corrosion has been a significant risk of petroleum and petrochemical industry. For tank floor inspection, acoustic emission qualitative methods is generally in the industry, which have some problems such as lack of accuracy. In this paper,…
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…
In this paper, a customized classifier is presented for the industry-practiced nondestructive evaluation (NDE) protocols using a hybrid-fuzzy inference system (FIS) to classify the corrosion and distinguish it from the geometric defects or…
This paper presents results from a case study carried out on an offshore oil and gas production platform with the purpose to apply and test BORA-Release, a method for barrier and operational risk analysis of hydrocarbon releases. A description of the…
In numerous industries e.g. oilfield pipelines, marine media, medicine and biomaterials microbially-induced corrosion (MIC) or biocorrosion has been universally identified. With improvements within the field of machine learning and artificial…
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…
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…
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…
Abstract Combating or preventing corrosion is achieved by a complex system of monitoring, preventative repairs, and careful use of materials. Monitoring methods include both off-line checks taken during maintenance and online monitoring. Off-line…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
This study aims to combine the smart pigs as a non-destructive test (NDT) inspection technique with software developed for the assessment of pipeline corrosion defects to ensure fitness for the surface. The software uses decision support systems,…
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…
The defect classification is investigated by using features-based giant-magnetoresistive pulsed eddy current (GMR-PEC) sensor. The power spectrum density of the intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) is extracted as the classification feature, considering…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)].…
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…