Water injection systems surface media

Offshore platforms are, in essence, similar to buried pipelines because in both, external and internal surfaces are exposed to corroding environments in buried pipelines the external surface of the pipe is exposed to the soil (which is a corrosive environment), and its internal surface is under the corrosive impact of the fluid that is going through, either water, oil or the like. In case of offshore platforms, the whole immersed stmcture is exposed to seawater (a corrosive medium), and the internal surfaces of the systems such as seawater injection systems or oil storage facilities can be considered locations at which corrosion is occurring internally. 

First, consider the diffusion of an organic compound across the boundary between two environmental systems, A and B. Imagine that at time 1 = 0, the surface of system A (e.g., an air bubble, a silt particle, etc.) is suddenly juxtaposed to a (very large) system B (e.g., the water of a lake, Fig. 18.5a). Mixing in system B is sufficient that the concentration of the selected compound at the boundary of the injected medium is kept at the constant value, Cg. This concentration is different from the initial concentration in A, CA. In system A, transport occurs by diffusion only. We want to calculate the concentration in system A as it evolves in space and time, CA(x,t). For the time being, we will assume that the equilibrium distribution coefficient between A and B is 1. Hence, the concentration of A seeks to change to be equal to that of system B. 

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