Corrosivity assessment of sour acid gas and paraffin oil flow lines using simulated multiphase environment tests

Ferriera, P A; Alves de Souza, H Jr; Kane, R D; Abayarathna, D

Title: Corrosivity assessment of sour acid gas and paraffin oil flow lines using simulated multiphase environment tests

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A program was conducted for the simulation of paraffin oil and acid gas flowline conditions in a laboratory using a variety of experimental methods. Laboratory experiments were selected and designed to produce the wall shear stress values calculated for field oil and gas flowlines on test electrodes. The second objective of the program was to study the corrosivity of steel under various flow conditions and to study the effectiveness of chemical inhibition and corrosion monitoring using various techniques. The experimental techniques utilized to study the corrosivity and chemical inhibition in the environments were conventional weight loss measurements and electrochemical linear polarization resistance (LPR).

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Ferriera, P A; Alves de Souza, H Jr ^[1]; Kane, R D; Abayarathna, D ^[2]

Petrobas, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
CLI International, Inc., Houston, TX (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997

OSTI Identifier:: 504728

Report Number(s):: CONF-970332-
TRN: IM9733%%143

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: Corrosion 97. 52. annual corrosion conference of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers: economics and performance - bridging the gap and NACExpo, New Orleans, LA (United States), 9-14 Mar 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Corrosion/97 conference papers; PB: [4584] p.

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 03 NATURAL GAS; 02 PETROLEUM; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; PIPELINES; CORROSION PROTECTION; CORROSION; HYDROGEN SULFIDES; CORROSIVE EFFECTS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; MONITORING; CORROSION INHIBITORS; STEELS

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                    Ferriera, P A, Alves de Souza, H Jr, Kane, R D, and Abayarathna, D. Corrosivity assessment of sour acid gas and paraffin oil flow lines using simulated multiphase environment tests.  United States: N. p., 1997. 
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                    Ferriera, P A, Alves de Souza, H Jr, Kane, R D, & Abayarathna, D. Corrosivity assessment of sour acid gas and paraffin oil flow lines using simulated multiphase environment tests.  United States.

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                    Ferriera, P A, Alves de Souza, H Jr, Kane, R D, and Abayarathna, D. 1997.  
        "Corrosivity assessment of sour acid gas and paraffin oil flow lines using simulated multiphase environment tests".  United States.

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  abstractNote = {A program was conducted for the simulation of paraffin oil and acid gas flowline conditions in a laboratory using a variety of experimental methods. Laboratory experiments were selected and designed to produce the wall shear stress values calculated for field oil and gas flowlines on test electrodes. The second objective of the program was to study the corrosivity of steel under various flow conditions and to study the effectiveness of chemical inhibition and corrosion monitoring using various techniques. The experimental techniques utilized to study the corrosivity and chemical inhibition in the environments were conventional weight loss measurements and electrochemical linear polarization resistance (LPR).},

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