A Novel Method to Mitigate the Top-of-the-Line Corrosion in Wet Gas Pipelines by Corrosion Inhibitor within a Foam Matrix

Top-of-the-line corrosion (TLC) has been a serious issue for the oil and gas industry. Conventional inhibition techniques are expensive and often do not seem to provide enough protection to the steel surface at the top of the pipe. A novel idea is to inject the corrosion inhibitor within a foam matr...

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Published in:Corrosion (Houston, Tex.) Tex.), 2013-02, Vol.69 (2), p.186-192
Main Authors: Jevremovic, I, Singer, M, Achour, M, Blumer, D, Baugh, T, Miskovic-Stankovic, V, Nesic, S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytical methods
Carbon 14
Carbon dioxide
Carbon isotopes
Corrosion
Corrosion cell
Corrosion inhibitors
Corrosion potential
Corrosion prevention
Corrosion tests
Efficiency
Electric contacts
Electrical resistivity
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
Electrochemistry
Electrode polarization
Electrodes
Experiments
Foaming
Foams
Gas pipelines
Gases
Imidazoline
Inhibition
Inhibitors
Linear polarization
Natural gas
Oil and gas industries
Oil and gas industry
Petroleum pipelines
Pipe
Pipelines
Pipes
Sodium
Spectroscopy
Steel
Submarine pipelines
Vapor phases
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Summary:Top-of-the-line corrosion (TLC) has been a serious issue for the oil and gas industry. Conventional inhibition techniques are expensive and often do not seem to provide enough protection to the steel surface at the top of the pipe. A novel idea is to inject the corrosion inhibitor within a foam matrix. The foam slug is formed first at an injection port and carried along the pipe by the gas phase. This process ensures homogeneous delivery of the inhibitor to the pipe wall along pipe sections suffering from TLC. This paper presents a comprehensive study performed in an innovative glass cell setup which consisted of a foaming cell and a corrosion cell to simulate intermittent contact between the foam and the steel surface. Corrosion measurements were performed using electrochemical techniques (electrochemical impedance spectroscopy [EIS], linear polarization resistance [LPR], potentiodynamic sweep) and electrical resistance (ER) measurements to determine the inhibitive performance of investigated inhibitor talloil diethylenetriamine imidazoline (TOFA/DETA imidazoline) within a foam matrix (sodium C14-16 olefin sulfonate).
ISSN:0010-9312
1938-159X
DOI:10.5006/0617