Sand erosion can remove protective corrosion scales on pipe walls and cause severe erosion-corrosion damage. Many factors influence erosion-corrosion. The goal of this work is to obtain an understanding of how these factors work together to cause severe erosion-corrosion damage. To reach this goal, a combination of erosion testing and flow modeling, including sand erosion, is used. This approach includes the effects of pipe geometry, size, and pipe wall material; flow velocity, fluid density and viscosity; sand size, shape, density, and sand production rate on the loss of wall thickness due to sand erosion and erosion-corrosion. Progress has been made to the extent that a procedure for prediction erosion penetration rate is presented. The procedure is a generalization of several earlier empirical methods for specific sand erosion conditions reported in the literature. Results from the erosion prediction model are compared to experimental data presented in the literature.

Subject
Erosion models, Materials, Piping, Viscosity, Sand, Stagnation, Flow velocity, Reynolds number, Density, Experimental data, Fluids, Impact velocity, Erosion
Keywords:
erosion, erosion-corrosion, experimental results, mechanistic model for erosion
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1995
Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP)
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