Hydrate Formation and its Influence on Natural Gas Pipeline Internal Corrosion Rate

Abstract

This study establishes the ability of hydrate formation to initiate internal corrosions along natural gaspipelines. The identified corrosion types, which are cavitations, erosion and corrosions by chemicalreactions,arecapabletoindividuallyorcollectivelyinitiatepittingandstresscracking corrosionswhicharealso dangerous to gas pipelines. The impacts of these corrosion types are classified to economics,environmental and human loss with the economic loss as much as US$3 trillion depending on thepipe-length, location, sea depth, wave function, climatic conditions and political situations.Various predictive measures to minimize hydrate formations are finally recommended.

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• http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fe03/eea78aa115ebc4b2130511010c6c32bb4efb.pdf

• http://www.onepetro.org/google/Papers/SPE/eLibrary_Papers/spe/2010/10OGIC/SPE-128544-MS/SPE-128544-MS-P.pdf?id=SPE-128544-MS&soc=SPE,

http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/128544-ms

• https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/SPE-128544-MS,

https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/104431,

http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/104431,

https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2035993117