Abstract: Environmental Damage Prevention Corrosion Monitoring in the Production Plants in Hungary

KOZMA, HUBANE; BALINT HETESI; IMRE KONCZ; BELA BOLONY; TIBOR CSABAI*; TIBOR PLAJNER;

To fulfill the demands of getting more and more severe environmental protection regulations only the application of up-to-date corrosion monitoring, protection techniques and / or technologies can help. This is why the corrosion protection gets an increasing importance in the production companies of MOL Rt. It is necessary to develop and apply new corrosion protection technologies because of the increased corrosion stress of the production facilities, to introduce new and more effective corrosion monitoring systems and to generalize the utilization of the experiences gained.

The aim of our activity is to ensure the expected lifetime of pipelines, facilities and sortie tanks by presently known protection, measurement and qualifying methods.

The characteristic corrosion phenomena, the devices of damage prevention corrosion monitoring, the periodic supervision methods and the proven protection methods are presented in this paper based on on-site experiences and own laboratory investigations.

Metals are the most widespread used structural materials in spite of the increasing use of plastics. The corrosion costs are very severe; about one third of corrosion damages could be prevented by use of proper corrosion resistant materials and the selection of the best corrosion protection technology.

The economic protection of the pipelines delivering media of different composition and located often subsurface, treating facilities and storage tanks is almost impossible without corrosion monitoring. The most endangered locations can be designated, corrosion damage can be forecasted and environmental impacts and production shutdowns can be largely reduced by the statistical evaluation and analysis of the data.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90942©1997 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, Vienna, Austria