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Failure/Issues due to Corrosion and Degradation Issues

Posted by Gerrit Buchheim PE on Thursday, 09 January 2014 in Materials Degrad

Corrosion
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In the US and throughout much of the world, pressure equipment for oil refining servic
is designed according to ASME Codes (possibly augmented by API standards) and th
integrity is assured by performing periodic inspection and maintenance according to
equipment strategies, which often are developed in accordance with and guidance fro
API recommended practices and standards. API develops and maintains a suite of
downstream pressure equipment standards through the CRE (Committee on Refining
Equipment). There are two subcommittees under CRE that involve extensive involvem
of industry specialists and treatment of metallurgical and corrosion issues, these are t
SCCM (Subcommittee on Corrosion and Materials) and SCI (Subcommittee on
Inspection).

This blog aims to provide some current information on new materials/corrosion issue
being covered by new and existing SCCM and SCI standards.
Issues:

HTHA: API issued an alert in September 2011 due to a number of reported cases where
High Temperature Hydrogen Attack occurred below the carbon steel Nelson curve in A
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941 in non-PWHTd carbon steel equipment and piping (Tesoro Anacortes NHT Inciden
and several cases reported by ExxonMobil, Valero, and Phillips66, and Irving Oil). API 9
is working on a revision to lower the carbon steel curve 50F/50 psi below the 7th Editio
API 941 carbon steel curve for non-PWHTd equipment.

Sulfidation Corrosion: The first edition of API 939-C was issued in 2009 to specifically
address the continuing occurrences of high temperature sulfidation corrosion in the
industry, with the aim of summarizing the issues and providing practical guidance on
minimizing the occurrence of failures. The 2012 Chevron Richmond fire in a crude unit
was another example where old carbon steel piping segments that contains low Silico
may corrode at higher rates than adjoining higher Si containing pipe segments. As a
result, the industry is conducting special emphasis programs, akin to PMI for alloy pip
to try to eliminate such failures, by measuring thickness on every piping component
(there is no reliable field equipment capable of differentiating between normal and low
Silicon contents in carbon steel piping. Most previous inspection programs focused o
fittings, which contain sufficient Silicon; it is the straight pipe sections that are most
vulnerable and in many instances a short pup piece of piping that is not even known
exist is the culprit, so tools to identify all butt welds through the insulation are used. A
939-C is currently being revised to provide even more guidance/recommendations in
performing such special emphasis programs.

Amine SCC: API 945 has been used for decades to minimize the issue of amine SCC. M
companies have moved to PWHT all carbon steel equipment in amine services,
irrespective of amine type and stated temperature and this document is receiving a mi
update to reflect industry practices and make it consistent with a NACE SP0472 re PW
guidance.
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Proactive Degradation Avoidance

API has recognized that best practice is to develop corrosion control documents (CCD
on a unit basis for all equipment areas to identify corrosion loops and degradation
mechanisms, therefore the SCCM has embarked in drafting a new RP on CCDs (RP 97
This effort is just getting underway, so it will probably not be issued until 2016 at the
earliest. One important part of a CCD is identifying Integrity Operating Windows (IOWs
that is process control and corrosive substance operating limits to minimize or at leas
make the degradation rate predictable. RP 584 (IOWs) was developed by SCI and shou
be published soon.

RBI: Both API 580 General Requirements for RBI and API 581 (APIs semi-quantitative
detailed method for RBI) are in the midst of major updating to reflect industry practice
Some of the damage mechanism information is being updated.

Gerrit is a member of the SCCM, Chair of the API 945 task group, original technical/ma
author of API 939-C and is currently vice chair of API 939-C, slated to be master editor
RP 970, has been an active member of API 941 for many years, was a member of API 58
task group, is a member of API 581 task group, was the first chairman of API 571 Dama
Mechanisms taskgroup and has been a charter member of the API/ASME FFS commit
for over 10 years and is chair of the Part 7 Taskgroup on Hydrogen Blistering, HIC, and
SOHIC.

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Gerrit Buchheim PE

Gerrit is a recognized industry expert in damage mechanisms, sulfidation,

cracking, creep, HTHA, fire assessment, IOWs, corrosion reviews, RBI, and
assessments. With his over 33 years of experience, he has been involved in all aspec
engineering including corrosion prevention, failure analysis, fire damage assessmen
service assessments in the entire range of fixed equipment primarily in refineries, bu
petrochemical units and upstream facilities.
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