Description
This suite provide a range of capability to investigate the initiation and propagation of corrosion in an range of industrially relevant environments so includes: hydrogen permeation and hydrogen embrittlement systems, low oxygen corrosion set up and sweet corrosion systems. It includes the analytical technique known as thermal desorption (TD), which provides the ability to measure volatile contaminants such as hydrogen adsorbed into metals. This is a useful technique to study hydrogen embrittlement of metals, a pervasive process of significant technological importance.
Uses / Applications
Our research focuses on ambient corrosion of materials in harsh, “sweet” (CO2) and “sour” (H2S) environments. This is of particular significance to the oil and gas pipeline systems and costs the industry over $1.4 billion a year. Broken down, this equates $589 million in surface pipeline and facility costs, $463 million annually in downhole tubing expenses, and another $320 million in capital expenditures related to corrosion.
Specification
Equipment in use includes:
SciMed Permeability test cell
Nanoscale high temperature/high pressure cell with parts: Hach Hastelloy flow chamber, SciMed Temperature controller and ASSY, Technimeasure two lots of item PL-20-A2-G-XX, Laboratory Testing Inc FTA Systems equipment (pH monitor in situ and ex situ)
Omnia Integrity Ltd MB2-V2 plus all ancillary items
Close-Ups Pixelink 2/3″ USB3 colour camera (5MP)
Alvatek Ivium compact stat
SciMed 2 Gamry reference 600+ potentiostat/galvanostat
Hach Orbisphere oxygen sensor
Hach Hydrogen sensors
Epsilon Model 3442-010M-24M miniature extensometer
