Cathodic protection

Flexible plastic liners are sometimes installed into new and existing oil and gas pipelines to prevent corrosion of the pipe wall. A practical difficulty of this method is that the plastic liners are permeable to gases, which can collect and form an annular space between the lin…

This thesis describes the metallurgical and environmental factors that influence hydrogen embrittlement of super duplex stainless steels and presents a model to predict the rate at which embrittlement occurs. Super duplex stainless steel has an austenite and ferrite microstructu…

With the continuous increase of the world population and technological needs, energy consumption dramatically increases in the world. The most used energy source, even though new investments are made to renewable energy sources, is still the petroleum crude oil. Because of the c…