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Fired heaters have the greatest running cost in a refinery or a petrochemical site. If any one of these heaters is 1 or 2% inefficient it can consume an additional $1m in fuel over a year or result in millions of dollars in lost revenue. High fuel consumption also translates to high emissions. Units of particular concern include Catalytic Reformers, Steam Methane Reformers (SMR), and Ethylene Furnaces.

Dealing with AC-induced corrosion is a sizable challenge for corrosion engineers, especially for pipelines traversing remote and inaccessible regions that can also be collocated with high-voltage power lines.

A brief history of the engineering of water tank corrosion protection and lining systems. The author also presents a technical review of the two most specified primer types in the modern potable water tank building industry: solvent-borne epoxies and moisture-cured urethane zinc primers.

The safety industry has an imperative to ask this question in relation to any incident: avoidable or inevitable? This is how ‘lessons learned’ work. In 2012 a fatality occurred in the field during a corrosion monitoring routine exercise to retrieve and replace a corrosion probe.

In this study, ground-breaking data analytics techniques are employed to combine high spatial resolution measurements from a Close Interval Survey (CIS) with year-round, daily Remote Monitoring Unit (RMU) measurements from nearby coupons.

An essential requirement for a safe and reliable coating inspection is the proper grounding of a portable holiday detector to the conductive substrate.

Both isolating spark gaps and DC decouplers are commonly used to protect against over-voltage conditions on pipeline isolation joints and storage tanks where cathodic protection systems are applied.

Pulsed eddy current, or PEC, is the response to corrosion under insulation, a plague to the energy sector mitigated for decades by this proven nondestructive testing inspection technique.

Corrosion is pervasive and relentless, affecting product safety and costs, to the tune of 3% of global GDP. Functionality or aesthetics, the right choices of materials and coatings are critical, impacting the attractiveness, durability and safety of your products and directly affecting the commercial viability of your business.

CUI threatens process performance, system longevity, and operating costs. However, there are proactive strategies to defend against CUI.

According to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), there are over 1800 and 2000 Oil & Gas offshore platforms and Coastal facilities, respectively, in the Gulf of Mexico alone.

Almost every man-made structure involves the use of metals; often, nonnoble metals that are susceptive to corrosion.

As governments, companies, and individuals across the globe increasingly seek to reduce their respective carbon footprints, emissions, and other negative impacts on the environment, it’s critical that all strategies be explored in order for this mission to be achieved.

Whether it’s raging wildfires or widespread power outages during winter storms, failing power infrastructure can have destructive and deadly consequences.

Soil characteristics and pipeline corrosion are inextricably linked. It’s well known that soil composition, temperature, moisture, and concentration of ions can all influence where a buried pipeline corrodes and how fast the corrosion occurs.