Corrosion of buried steel can be managed through one or some combination of the following four approaches: (1) the service life of the steel can be increased with additional steel incorporated into ...

The exterior and interior surfaces of carbon steel pipes tend to corrode gradually, irrespective of their environment. It is necessary to regularly inspect this corrosion to assess and monitor pipe ...

Wartsila and Maersk teamed up on developing an in-pipe solution for solving scrubber discharge pipes corrosion issues. The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä and Danish ship operator A.P. Moller - ...

New deterministic and stochastic models can perdict the evolution of pitting corrosion depth and rate distributions from observed soil properties. Researchers performed a total of 259 excavations in 3 ...

Corrosion of steel water pipes in the safety-related piping systems of aging U.S. nuclear power plants is fast becoming a safety concern and a significant operational cost, not to mention an ...

Corrosion problems at pipe supports on onshore and offshore Oil and Gas facilities all over the world is one of the leading causes of piping failures. This paper discusses the various corrosion ...

A comparison of scheduled or immediate responses/mile vs. number of repairs from an Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) study and the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety ...

The failure of a natural-gas pipeline that ruptured three weeks ago, devastating a San Bruno neighborhood, may have started along a weld or in a weakened section of the 54-year-old pipe, said experts ...

Long-ignored severe sulfidation corrosion at a Northern California refinery caused a pipe rupture and fire, injuring six workers and driving more than 15,000 people to seek emergency medical care.