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Corrosion under thermal insulations namely CUI (Corrosion under insulation) is among the key degradations posing integrity risks to the hydrocarbon processing, chemical, and petrochemical facilities. CUI is reportedly known as the reason behind 40-60% of failures in the piping for the oil refineries. Whereas the small-bore piping (i.e., NPS< 4”) is more prone to this damage mechanism where reportedly where up to 81% of failure result from CUI.
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Cryogenic vessels are specifically designed to store cryogenic liquids at very low temperatures, such as −196 °C for liquid N2, −252 °C for liquid H2, -160o C for LNG (liquified natural gas), etc. In case of Pentane/LPG (liquified petroleum gas), though the temperature is higher in the range of -7 to -23o C, cryogenic steel spherical vessels are used for storage as shown in Figure 1.
The large temperature difference between the internal cryogenic liquid and the external environment causes an extremely strong heat transfer between the two, which must be prevented by the thermal insulation material to ensure secure storage of the cryogenic liquid.
This paper discusses the use of thermal imaging as an analytical tool in forensic investigations of moisture-related coating failures applied over hollow core building walls. The success of thermal imaging depends upon detecting subtle temperature differences arising from differences in thermal conductivity of the coated wall surfaces. The method is a valuable adjunct to contemporary failure investigation methodology.
Thermal Insulating Coatings are a relatively young technology but are gaining worldwide acceptance quickly due to their energy retention capabilities, easy application, ability to protect substrates, reducing maintenance and personnel protection costs. Not to be confused with reflective roof coatings, TICs use all 5 thermal dynamic blocking agents (or principles) to reduce thermal transfer between environments.
Thermal Insulating Coatings reduce a facilities carbon footprint along with being an environmentally friendly product.
After a loss of coolant accident a nuclear reactor needs to be flooded, quenching the fuel rods, which would suffer a thermal shock. Six commercial alloys of nuclear interest were tested for resistance to quenching measures after exposure to air at 1200°C for 2 hours.
Thermal spray coatings (TSC) have been successfully used in all major sectors of the marine and industrial corrosion control coatings market.
Corrosion protection of large structures such us wind turbines or offshore platforms operating in corrosive seawater environment is usually provided by cathodic protection (CP) and/or protective coatings. However those methods have some limitations. Organic coatings without CP can provide protection to steel substrate only when they remain intact whereas sacrificial anodes can considerably increase the overall mass of the protected structure and have to be replaced periodically. Moreover sacrificial anodes are only effective under submerged conditions and don’t protect the structure under alternating wetting and drying condition so-called “splash zone” which is particularly corrosive environment due to constant splashing of highly aerated seawater UV radiation and increased concentration of seawater constituents during drying. Furthermore confined volume of electrolyte easy access to oxygen and atmospheric pollutant deposited on the metals’ surface lead to more severe corrosion in this region than in the submerged zone.An alternative corrosion mitigation method is application of thermally sprayed metallic coatings such as thermally sprayed aluminium (TSA). TSA affords long-term and maintenance-free protection to steel substrate in two ways. Firstly when intact it acts as a barrier to the corrosive environment and secondly it provides sacrificial protection by working as an evenly distributed anode which preserves steel in case of a damage of a coating. Moreover large operating temperature range high resistance to mechanical damage and low corrosion rate in ocean water make it a perfect corrosion prevention method for offshore applications.One of the characteristic features of thermally sprayed coatings is porosity which is filled with corrosion products when the corrosion progresses. To delay the self-corrosion of the protective coating application of sealers is recommended.In this work the behaviour of several arc-sprayed metal coatings is investigated under full artificial seawater (ASTM D1141) immersion and compared with simulated splash zone conditions under droplets of artificial seawater. Effectiveness of TSA coatings is evaluated using electrochemical techniques and corrosion products are examined. The effect of novel sealers containing nanomaterials is also assessed.
Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) induced damage is one of the main causes of degradation in reinforced concrete (RC) structures, especially in the high relative humidity environmental conditions. ASR involves complex dissolution-precipitation reactions in concrete that take place in the presence of alkali ions, silica, and moisture. Alkali ions diffuse into the porous aggregate through the concrete pore solution and startthe dissolution of silica by breaking silanol and siloxane bonds in the reactive aggregates.
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