Course Overview
This course will cover the types of corrosion encountered and look at possible ways to minimize these (including pigging and chemical addition). A commercial program that assesses the likelihood of corrosion in pipelines will be used to generate reports. Typical material selection considerations for the oil and gas industry will be reviewed.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
3.0
- Retired
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Give approximate design lives for common plant equipment.
- List and explain a dozen common types of corrosion.
- Using a galvanic chart, predict which one of a pair of metals is likely to corrode.
- List and explain seven (7) common methods of non destructive testing (NDT).
- Identify common design and manufacturing considerations to minimize corrosion.
- Explain what an inhibitor is and how it works.
- List the corrosive constituents in oil.
- Identify the most common materials of construction for pipelines and installations.
- Using a commercial software program and given operating parameters, predict the most likely area of a pipeline to encounter corrosion problems.
Effective as of Fall 2007
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