Assessing_Safety_for_Pipelines_with_Pitting_Corrosion_Defects-1.pdf

R e v ie w C o p y Assessing Safety for Pipelines with Pitting Corrosion Defects Lin Guanfaa,b Zhao Xinweia,b Bai zhenquana,b Zheng Maoshenga,* Lu Minxuc a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China bTubular Goods Research Center of CNPC, Xi’an 710065, China cSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100095, China Abstract: In the reliability analysis for pipelines of oil and gas with pitting corrosion defects, considering the effect of porous corrosion scales to modify the known method of reliability analysis, an assessing formula was educed in the paper. The value of modified part in the formula corresponds to the factual thickness of the porous corrosion scales. The more the thickness of pitting corrosion is, the higher the reliability index of pipelines with the pitting corrosion defects is in the same substrate thickness of pipeline. The result of a factual example applying the above evaluating method shows that the evaluation increases the reliability index of oil and gas pipelines. Keywords: corrosion defect; reliability; state parameter; oil and gas pipeline; assessing. Introduction The pipeline of oil and gas is usually applied to transport oil and gas in petroleum industry. Corrosion is the most familiar failure ways in its use. Because pitting corrosion is very harmful to pipelines, it sometimes comes into being dropping-corrosion perforation to result in damage of portion or all of pipelines, and then brings on blowout of pipelines in serious occasion, leak of oil and gas, environment pollution, human damage and tremendous economic loss, and so on. Therefore, in view of factual using environment of pipelines, the degeneration of mechanical property and the reliability under using pressure for the pipelines are researched, which is very important to the pipelines in the security of the service pipelines. But recent studies a