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Validation of a New Thin-Film Culture Device for Detecting Sulfate-Reducing Microbial Species

Product Number: MECC23-19975-SG

Author: Xiangyang Zhu; Ghassan A. Humaid; Mohamed A. Mahmoud

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) constitute a specialized group of phylogenetically diverse anaerobes that are responsible for the dissimilatory reduction of sulfate to sulfide. They are present in a variety of environments, including oil- and gas-bearing formations, soils, and domestic, industrial, and mining wastewaters (1,2). SRB are a major concern in the oil and gas industry with significant economic and safety implication.

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Validation of an Optimized qPCR Workflow for MIC Risk Identification and Oilfield Microbial Monitoring

Product Number: MECC23-20130-SG

Author: Iain McCulloch; Michael Whitman; Danika Nicoletti; Greg Howard; Neil Sharma; Amy Manning

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) is a key risk to oil and gas infrastructure and confers great cost to asset owners. The AMPP 2021 IMPACT Canada study, which analyzed the energy, manufacturing, and mining sectors, shows the cost of corrosion in Canada is roughly $51.9 billion per year. To break this down further, MIC is estimated to make up roughly 20% of all corrosion which is roughly $10.4 billion in Canada alone, each year.

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Valves In Hydrogen Gas Transport: The Challenges Of The Energy Transition

Product Number: 51323-19525-SG

Author: Tundzhay Kurtulan, Ivan Gutierrez, Bradley Healey, Mark McLeod

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

The suitability of valves in certain profiles for low-pressure pure and blended hydrogen gas service has been investigated. To achieve this, the existing standards, practices, design codes and regulations are reviewed in this paper and the input of natural gas operators, engineering companies, valve manufacturers and experts has been utilized.

The research and trials done by natural gas operators is starting to reveal that the effect of low-pressure hydrogen gas on valves is negligible and the risks involved due to hydrogen embrittlement were low.

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Variables That Can Affect Pull Off Adhesion of Coatings

Product Number: 51323-19147-SG

Author: Swapnil Shukla, Nicole Rakers, Michael McCarthy, Bernard McPeak

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

Adhesion is a physical property that is crucial in many coatings, sealants, and adhesive applications, be it automotive, marine, or aerospace for example. Pull-off adhesion testing is an important tool in evaluating a coating’s performance, particularly while comparing pre- and post-exposure results. No matter what the application, the method for testing adhesion along with selecting the appropriate testing criteria has been the subject of multiple studies and reviews in the historical literature.

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Very High Strength Low Alloy Steels For HPHT Applications

Product Number: 51322-17721-SG

Author: Florian Thebault, Julien Pennequin, John Fortaillier, Carine Landier

Publication Date: 2022

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More and more High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) sour wells are operated worldwide. Challenging material selection is required for such severe operating conditions.^1,2 Very high strength materials, presenting yield strength above 896 MPa (130 ksi), are required for sustaining the pressure. Consequently, even a low amount of H₂S in the gas phase may lead to a H₂S partial pressure beyond the limit of 3.5 mbar (0.05 psi) established in NACE MR0175 / ISO 15156 standard.³ Indeed, both high yield strengths and partial pressures of H₂S contribute to a situation where the risk of Sulfide Stress Cracking (SSC) is high. The present paper is focusing on the SSC resistance of 130 ksi minimum yield strength material developed for covering such HPHT applications.

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Vintage Pipeline Enhanced Corrosion Management Analysis

Product Number: 51324-21127-SG

Author: Kenton Lawson; Jason Charles Land; Angel R. Kowalski

Publication Date: 2024

$40.00

Vintage pipeline operators face increased regulatory challenges. These aging pipeline systems may have decades of metal loss and coating damage from soil interaction, pressure cycling, thermal stresses, and other physical phenomena that affects the pipeline’s mechanical integrity to make it more susceptible to leaks or ruptures. Aging pipeline systems are candidates for Enhanced Corrosion Management Analysis (ECMA) to effectively mitigate corrosion risks. The ECMA methodology begins with the integration and analysis of available corrosion control monitoring, maintenance, inspection, and assessment data, to identify the need to collect additional data. When all data deemed necessary to conduct ECMA is available, an analysis is conducted to identify the possible causes of corrosion metal loss in the pipeline system, e.g., inadequate cathodic polarization, poor or disbonded coating conditions, electrical shielding, stray current interference, or microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC). Effective mitigation plans are then developed to address most probable causes of corrosion metal loss and integrated into the corrosion management program. A case study is presented to demonstrate the implementation of ECMA on a vintage pipeline system and the development of a 20-year corrosion mitigation plan to effectively minimize the corrosion risk on the pipeline. The case study also illustrates how engineering economic analysis can be used to guide decision making regarding operational life extension of the asset and how a well-planned corrosion management program can provide cost-effective, safe operation over the lifecycle of the pipeline.

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Visualizing Correlations of Water Quality and Cathodic Protection Parameters

Product Number: 51323-19333-SG

Author: Veronica Lynn Gerios, Natalie Becerra-Stasiewicz, Sean Morefield, Cristina Fleig Mayer

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

Corrosion is responsible for the deterioration of steel structures over time. Thus, there are billions of dollars lost each year worldwide, due to leakage of materials transported in metallic pipelines, as well as the need for repair and replacement of materials. Cathodic protection is one of the main ways to minimize or even suspend the corrosive process, along with the application of protective coatings on metallic structures.

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Water Based Flame Retardant Coating

Product Number: 51322-18184-SG

Author: Sachin Chavhan

Publication Date: 2022

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Fire is the biggest threat for the crews in aircraft, ships, submarines, and land vehicles. As a result of such threats there have been use of fire/flame retardants coatings increased exponentially to curb economic and social consequences of fire [1]. There are various types of coatings available to fight against the fire. Two classes of fire protection technologies are being used currently, 1) Fire retardant and 2) Fire resistant. Fire retardant coatings are passive fire protection coatings where such coatings can slow down the spread of the flames allowing more time for evacuation and firefighting. Fire resistant coatings typically inhibiting the flame penetration or do not ignite upon in contact with fire [2].

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Waterborne Direct-to-Metal Coating Application Development for Bridge Applications

Product Number: 51323-19032-SG

Author: Balaji Kannan, Tsukasa Mizuhara, Christophe Grenier, Teesta Dasgupta, Brian Okerberg, Rebekah Wilson

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

The development of environmentally-friendly corrosion resistant coatings is one area of recent focus in the coatings industry. For example, the Department of Defense owns more than 460,000 facilities around the world and reports the annual cost of corrosion of around $800 million. The coatings used on these structures frequently rely on older polymeric coating systems that do not meet the current requirements for environmental/regulatory concerns.

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Watermain Breaks - Materials Does Matter

Product Number: 51323-19290-SG

Author: Edward Larkin, Mehrooz Zamanzadeh (Dr. Zee), Aaron Ulmer, Nathan Pace, Anil Kumar Chikkam

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

Watermain failures are not often recognized as corrosion but are usually referred to merely as “watermain breaks” because watermain pipe appears sound prior to failure. Some of the causes of watermain breaks are poor design, improper installation, surge or water hammer, soil movement, manufacturing defects, impact, internal corrosion, and external corrosion. Figure 1 shows some of the possible causes of the DI pipe.

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Wear Performance Evaluation Of Chrome Carbide Overlays (Ccos)

Product Number: 51322-17748-SG

Author: Md. Aminul Islam, Jiaren (Jimmy) Jiang, Yongsong Xie

Publication Date: 2022

$20.00

Erosion-corrosion plays an important role in determining the durability of the erosive/corrosive slurry handling equipment. The combined action of erosion and corrosion produces a high degradation rate. Material loss rate due to erosion-corrosion is usually significantly higher than the sum of material loss rate due to pure erosion and pure corrosion acting separately. The degradation in erosion-corrosion is primarily by matrix extrusion due to abrasive particle impact.

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Weathering Of Industrial Coatings: Correlation Between Three Years Outdoor Florida Exposure And Four Accelerated Weathering Methods

Product Number: 51323-18869-SG

Author: Sean Fowler, Kurt Wood, David Duecker

Publication Date: 2023

$20.00

Implementation of classification and certification programs for durable industrial and infrastructure maintenance coating systems is hindered by a lack of test protocols to reliably accelerate the aging process and estimate service lifetime. This gap in the industry also hurts development efforts to
reformulate or add new color choices to existing product lines. The first problem can be addressed by performing long-term weathering testing at outdoor exposure sites in places like south Florida and Arizona, but the need to wait 5 or 10 years or longer to confirm a classification or certify a product makes such schemes difficult to implement and ultimately reduces their value.

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