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Corrosion resistance can also be provided by lining a carbon steel honsing with stainless steel or other alloy. 

Various materials are available as with all process equipment, ranging from carbon steel coated with rubber, Halar or Kynar, to stainless steel 304, 316 and higher grades, or more expensive alloys such as titanium, Hastelloy C-22, C276, or C4. These grades of Hastelloy will, however, double the capital outlays. 

Silicon bronzes are alloyed principally with silicon to achieve high strength, similar to carbon steel, coupled with good toughness and excellent corrosion resistance. Applications include fasteners, pumps and bearings. 

A low-carbon steel tube with a 25.4 mm (1 in.) outside diameter is radially finned with an aluminum (Alloy 1100) strip 15.8 mm (0.625 in.) high and 0.483 mm (0.019 in.) average thickness uniformly spaced at 400 fins/m (10.2 fins/in.). The outside surface of the steel tube is 80°C (176°F), and the tube is cooled by air in cross flow, with a bulk air temperature of 30°C (86°F) with a film heat-transfer coefficient of 70 W/m K (12.3 Btu/h fF °F), assumed uniform over the entire outside surface... 

Cladding or overlays are sometimes applied to carbon and low-alloy steel to avoid stress corrosion cracking problems. For example, carbon steel clad with Type 304L SS is often used in severe amine services. 

The primary advantage of anodic protection is its applicability for extremely corrosive environments. It is most extensively applied to protect equipment used to produce, store, and handle sulfuric acid. It is also used in chemical and nuclear industries, during the production of fertilizers, and for the protection of heat exchangers and tankers with hot concentrated adds sulfuric, nitric, phosphoric, ammonium nitrate, and so on, involving components usually made of carbon steels, alloy steels, stainless steels, titanium, nickel and its alloys, and so on. 

It is usefiil to consider the case of an installation of a subsea gathering system for a natural gas production field. The pipeline design for a new gas production facility consisted of 20 cm diameter subsea gathering lines (flow lines) emptying into a 19 km, 50 cm diameter subsea transmission gas pipeline. The pipeline was to bring wet gas from an offshore producing area to a dehydration facility on shore. The internal corrosion was estimated to be 300-400 mpy. The corrosion mitigation options considered were (i) carbon steel treated with a corrosion inhibitor (ii) internally coated carbon steel with a supplemental corrosion inhibitor (iii) 22% Cr duplex stainless steel (iv) 625 corrosion-resistant alloy (CRA). The chance for success was estimated from known field histories of each technique, as well as the analysis of the corrosivity of the system and the level of sophistication required for successful implementation (Table 4.42). 

E6.2. Predict whether or not galvanic corrosion will cause the following alloys to be subjected to leaching (i) carbon and carbon steel alloys in an oxidizing atmosphere, (ii) steel rivets in aluminum drain gutters, (iii) copper-nickel alloy in refinery condenser tubes, (iii) graphite fiber-reinforced aluminum composites, (iv) brass in water, (v) iron-chromium alloys, and (vi) carbon steel pipe in contact with the weld to stainless steel pipe. 

The oxidation resistance of stainless steel alloys with different compositions is compared to the oxidation resistance of carbon steel in Fig. 11.6 [4]. Carbon steels perform satisfactorily at temperatures below 500 °C. Chromium-molybdenum steels doped with up to 2% silicon have low corrosion rates up to 700 °C. Ferritic stainless and martensitic steels have superior oxidation resistance when compared to carbon and Cr-Mo steels. The corrosion rate of the alloy drastically decreased (increase in the resistance to oxidation) upon increasing the chromium content from 8% to 25%. 

Corrosion by elemental sulfur, which, sometimes present in the fluids of the reservoir, is an oxidizer for the carbon steel and, with low-alloy steels, easily gives rise to sulfides and pitting corrosion... 

C.S. = CS = cs = carbon steel, steel alloyed with a small amount of carbon, cullet = scrap pieces of glass recycled to a furnace for melting, cure (refractories) = to stabilize the chemical reaction in concrete and cement-based masonry and refractory materials by subjecting them to heat below 200 F (93 C). curtain wall = a baffle or wall to separate firing zones. 

Cobalt occurs as a number of sulfide and arsenide ores including cobaltite (CoAsS) and skutterudite ((Co,Ni)As3 which contains planar AS4-units). Production of the metal generally relies on the fact that it often occurs in ores of other metals (e.g. Ni, Cu and Ag) and the final processes involve reduction of C03O4 with A1 or C followed by electrolytic refining. Pure Co is brittle but it is commercially important in special steels, alloyed with Al, Fe and Ni (Alnico is a group of carbon-free alloys) in permanent... 

Surface water temperatures vary mainly by latitude, with the temperature ranging from approximately -2°C in the Arctic to about 35°C in the tropics [16. Table 3 shows the variation of surface temperatures in selected oceans as a function of latitude in the northern and southern hemispheres [d]. The data suggest that for a given latitude, corrosion test results may vary slightly depending on the ocean location chosen. Also, metal corrosion rates are usually higher at the surface where temperatures are warmer than in the deep ocean where the temperatures are colder [6,12. The effect of temperature as a function of ocean depth for low-carbon steel alloys is presented in Fig. 3. 

Noble metal clad systems are materials having a relatively inexpensive base metal covered with a corrosion-resistant metal. A typical example would be a carbon steel clad with a stainless steel or nickel-base alloy. Another group of commonly used noble metal clad metals uses aluminum as a substrate. For example, in stainless-steel-clad aluminum truck bumpers, the stainless steel provides corrosion resistance, and the aluminum provides a high strength-to-weight ratio. 

The presence of these acids in crude oils and petroleum cuts causes problems for the refiner because they form stable emulsions with caustic solutions during desalting or in lubricating oil production very corrosive at high temperatures (350-400°C), they attack ordinary carbon steel, which necessitates the use of alloy piping materials. 

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