Adhesion strength of exterior or interior coating of steel pipes is too important. Increasing of coating adhesion on surfaces can increase the life time of coating, safety factor of transmitting line pipe and decreasing the rate of corrosion and costs. Preparation of steel pipe surfaces before doing the coating process is done by shot and grit blasting. This is a mechanical way to do it. Some e...

With the fast development of urban transit system and natural gas industry, the Stray Current Corrosion (SCC) for buried gas pipeline has become more frequent in china. In this study, principle and characteristic of Stray Current (SC) resulting from rail transit system were introduced. Presently available SC testing methods, equipment and determination standards in china were summarized. For an...

The strength and fatigue properties of cast iron samples taken from water distribution mains have been investigated. Specimens were sourced from three sections of pipe which had experienced varying amounts of corrosion in service, enabling the variable of pipe condition to be incorporated within the study. The strengths in four-point flexure of small specimens from the pipes examined were descr...

A new and exciting technique for performing DLC deposition on the inside of cylindrical substrates, in particular pipes, will be described. Using the hollow cathode effect (HCE), a high density plasma can be generated within such cylindrical substrates by using Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD). As the pipe itself is the vacuum chamber, such high density plasmas can be maintaine...

Corrosion scales and deposits formed within drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs) have the potential to retain inorganic contaminants. The objective of this study was to characterize the elemental and structural composition of extracted pipe solids and hydraulically-mobile deposits originating from representative DWDSs. Goethite (alpha-FeOOH), magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) and siderite (FeCO(3)) ...

Pipelines are important infrastructures in petroleum and gas industries which are vital to the national economy. They are typically subjected to corrosion inside of the pipe and there is an urgent need for the development of a cost-effective, nonexcavating, in-service, permanent critical pipeline damage detection and prediction system. In this paper, we proposed an in-situ multiple mode pipelin...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the mechanism of non-axisymmetric wall-thinning that caused a pipe break in the pipeline of the Mihama nuclear power plant in 2004. The wall thinning was caused by the flow accelerated corrosion which affects low carbon steel pipelines. The mass transfer rate measurement of the wall thinning behind an office in a curved swirling flow is carried out in ...

The occurence of corrosion is a potentially major problem for all sprinkler systems. It could cause a problem for the operational reliability as well as for the performance reliablity. It is of course negative for the operational reliability if corrosion causes plugged piping, clogging of control valves or simply non-opening sprinkler heads. All of which may well be the effect of uncontrolled c...

Describes a fuzzy logic model intended for quantitative risk analysis to the integrity of buried pipelines. The proposed approach correlates data from combined CIPS+DCVG coating surveys to the soil resistivity, in order to define an indicator that expresses the corrosion susceptibility at a given coating defect location. Inputs used in the mathematical model include: DCVG defect severity, CIPS ...