... corrosion prevention gasket plant construction INTRODUCTION It has generally been thought that as long as flanges are properly tightened, no particular corrosion of the flange faces would occur during plant construction. However, in a recent plant construction project in which modular construction...

... and oil and gas industries are discussed and suggestions are made for materials selection improvements to aid in internal corrosion prevention. Additionally, the effectiveness of specific post-construction cathodic protection systems is discussed. It is imperative that the tank designer and corrosion...

... is to demonstrate the experience gained from executing CP upgrades, and to provide the best option to ensure integrity, cost saving and fewer shutdown periods. Aboveground Storage Tank Cathodic Protection Corrosion Prevention INTRODUCTION Table-1 CP system reading before upgrade Transformer Rectifier Rate...

... the installation of a novel automatic flushing system. corrosion pipeline MIC solids 4-phase flow pitting stagnant water stationary bed corrosion prevention unpiggable map INTRODUCTION A large number of onshore and offshore facilities are approaching or have exceeded their original design life. Many...

...EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE Abstract Corrosion prevention and control for equipment assets continues to be an increasingly costly and decreasingly effective activity for the Air Force, especially under current expanded deployment scenarios to austere locations. The operating and/or storage...

... progress made to date in the controlled release properties of these microcapsules as well as in their corrosion indication and corrosion inhibition function. smart coating corrosion detection corrosion prevention controlled release INTRODUCTION Corrosion is a costly problem for military operations...

... to the performance of the coating materials and lessons learned about application in the field on operating HDSs. corrosion prevention heat distribution systems (HDS) manholes high-temperature primers ceramic coatings BACKGROUND Manholes are an essential design feature of heat distribution systems (HDS). Also...

... was significant but the benefit of assuring hull integrity and submariner safety justified the expense. nickel corrosion nickel plating UNS N06625 clad welding submarine forging corrosion prevention INTRODUCTION AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS A submarine pressure hull essentially consists of a cylinder of high...

... between riser thick coatings and atmospheric paint system where accelerated corrosion may occur. Important efforts are currently produced in the field of International Standardization (ISO) for specifying the best compromises for pipeline coatings. corrosion prevention pipelines offshore coatings...

... be used at the design stage to select the best material for a particular application. corrosion failures failure analysis corrosion testing corrosion prevention INTRODUCTION Corrosion failures in the United States cost the nation almost $300 billion annually [ ref. (1) ]. Corrosion has a large impact...

... corrosion test that increasing these factors mentioned above increased the corrosion rate of carbon steel. These tendencies were in good agreement with those in actual furnaces. Furthermore, as a corrosion prevention method, a gas spray coating of two-layer Al/80Ni20Cr, selected by laboratory corrosion...

... kits were becoming both easier to master and more portable. A recent survey of the open literature ¹⁹ revealed the existence of quite a few systems dealing with many important aspects of corrosion prevention and control. The following list indicates the major areas for which some systems...

... has opened new communication channels between various strata of corrosion knowledge holders. This paper reviews the efforts published in the recent literature on the applications of the expert system technology to corrosion prevention and tries to demonstrate how such an approach could help...

... to simplify the validation of the ES knowledge base. Water Chemistry Expert System Simulator Corrosion Prevention Candu Nuclear Reactor INTRODUCTION Corrosion control is extremely important in the nuclear industry. The most obvious reason is that down-time and maintenance resulting from equipment...

... 3 14.8 F 4 15.5 F 5 16.5 F 6 17 F 7 18.5 F 8 19 F 9 20 F 10 21 F cost risk evaluation risk management expert systems corrosion protection corrosion prevention INTRODUCTION The contemporary, highly competitive business environment calls for extreme cost...

...Tests were conducted on steel coupled C-rings in the NACE TM-01-77 ⁴ environment for 720 to 1000 hours of exposure. Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) Tests stress corrosion cracking (SCC) hydrogen embrittlement sulfide stress cracking (SSC) corrosion prevention INCONEL gas wells...

... 100 to 1700 hours. The results obtained using scribed panels over a short duration were compared with the information derived from longer term tests on non-scribed test panels. adhesion atmospheric corrosion blisters coatings alkyd coatings corrosion prevention examination railroads salt...

... expert systems can be substantially increased by building in the ability for users to add their own proprietary information. Even then, CPI staff may be reluctant to use the systems unless they are required to do so. Expert systems materials selection corrosion prevention process equipment chemical...

...-worked alloy 625 (UNS N06625) and to alloy 625 PLUS (UNS N07716), and is superior to that of age-hardened alloy 718 (UNS N07718). stress corrosion cracking (SCC) hydrogen embrittlement sulfide stress cracking (SSC) corrosion prevention Inconel gas wells sour gas environments hydrogen sulfide...

... is dependable on environmental condition, a vacuum deaeration procedure is recommended to minimize variations of SSRT results in autoclave test for H₂S-CO₂-Cl^- environment. carbon dioxide chloride ions corrosion prevention cracks deaeration hydrogen embrittlement gas...