Due to the increasing development of offshore applications in recent years, operational
equipment used at the seabed is exposed to lower temperatures (about 4°C) than the ones
used in qualification tests. This development has triggered the study of the effect of
temperature on sse susceptibility of High Strength Steels given the reduced cracking
resistance observed at lower testing temperatures. Particularly, the influence of temperature
on K1ssc values was considered because there is still no explanation for this dependence.
Great amount of work regarding not only the influence of environmental parameters
(temperature, H2S content) on K1ssc but also the effect of hydrogen sulfide on hydrogen
absorption has been performed, though it is difficult to relate both types of approaches. The
intention of this work is to try to give some light on the effect of hydrogen sulfide on corrosion
and hydrogen insertion in NACE environments, and at the same time, study the effect of
hydrogen insertion and transport characteristics on K,ssc. For this matter, the influence of
temperature and hydrogen sulfide on K,ssc values was studied for 1Cr-O.7Mo High Strength
Steels along with the assessment of corrosion rates, absorbed diffusible hydrogen and
diffusion coefficient between 10°C and 60°C.
Keywords: Sulfide Stress Corrosion Cracking. hydrogen sulfide. K1ssc. testing temperature.
absorbed hydrogen, hydrogen permeation, hydrogen diffusion, mechanism of hydrogen
insertion