Explosion Clad for Upstream Oil and Gas Equipment

Journal Article · Mon Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3552573· OSTI ID:21513172

Banker, John G ^[1]; Massarello, Jack ^[2]; Pauly, Stephane ^[3]

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1. Dynamic Materials Corp., 5405 Spine Rd., Boulder, CO 80301 (United States)
2. Global Metallix, Consultant to DMC, 5405 Spine Rd., Boulder, CO 80301 (United States)
3. DMC., Nobelclad Business Unit, 1 Allee Alfred NOBEL, 66600 Rivesaltes (France)

Today's upstream oil and gas facilities frequently involve the combination of high pressures, high temperatures, and highly corrosive environments, requiring equipment that is thick wall, corrosion resistant, and cost effective. When significant concentrations of CO{sub 2} and/or H{sub 2}S and/or chlorides are present, corrosion resistant alloys (CRA) can become the material of choice for separator equipment, piping, related components, and line pipe. They can provide reliable resistance to both corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement. For these applications, the more commonly used CRA's are 316L, 317L and duplex stainless steels, alloy 825 and alloy 625, dependent upon the application and the severity of the environment. Titanium is also an exceptional choice from the technical perspective, but is less commonly used except for heat exchangers. Explosion clad offers significant savings by providing a relatively thin corrosion resistant alloy on the surface metallurgically bonded to a thick, lower cost, steel substrate for the pressure containment. Developed and industrialized in the 1960's the explosion cladding technology can be used for cladding the more commonly used nickel based and stainless steel CRA's as well as titanium. It has many years of proven experience as a reliable and highly robust clad manufacturing process. The unique cold welding characteristics of explosion cladding reduce problems of alloy sensitization and dissimilar metal incompatibility. Explosion clad materials have been used extensively in both upstream and downstream oil, gas and petrochemical facilities for well over 40 years. The explosion clad equipment has demonstrated excellent resistance to corrosion, embrittlement and disbonding. Factors critical to insure reliable clad manufacture and equipment design and fabrication are addressed.

• OSTI ID: 21513172
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1315, Issue 1; Conference: AMPT2010: International conference on advances in materials and processing technologies, Paris (France), 24-27 Oct 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3552573; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
CARBON DIOXIDE
CHLORIDES
CLADDING
CONTAINMENT
CORROSION RESISTANCE
CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS
GAS APPLIANCES
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT
NICKEL
OILS
PETROCHEMICALS
PRESSURE RANGE MEGA PA 10-100
STAINLESS STEELS
SUBSTRATES
SURFACES
TITANIUM
WELDING
ALLOYS
APPLIANCES
CARBON ADDITIONS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
DEPOSITION
ELEMENTS
EMBRITTLEMENT
EQUIPMENT
FABRICATION
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HIGH ALLOY STEELS
IRON ALLOYS
IRON BASE ALLOYS
JOINING
METALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PRESSURE RANGE
PRESSURE RANGE MEGA PA
STEELS
SURFACE COATING
TRANSITION ELEMENT ALLOYS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS