Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Pipeline Steels

doi:10.11902/1005.4537.2018.147

Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection

2019, Vol. 39

Issue (1): 9-17 DOI: 10.11902/1005.4537.2018.147

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Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Pipeline Steels

Xianbo SHI¹,Chunguang YANG¹,Wei YAN¹,Dake XU²,Maocheng YAN¹,Yiyin SHAN¹,Ke YANG¹(

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1. Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China

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Abstract

Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of pipeline steels has been recognized as an important form of pipeline failures. It has been reported that more than 20% of pipeline system failures was related to microorganisms. It is therefore important to improve our understanding of MIC and take countermeasures for controlling the MIC. In this paper, the MIC of pipeline steels and the related hazards are reviewed, the MIC failure cases of pipeline steels in recent years are analyzed, and the state-of-the-art of research on the MIC of pipeline steels, as well as the relevant countermeasures are summarized. From the material aspect, the research progress of MIC-resistant pipeline steels is elaborated, and the research and development direction of MIC-resistant pipeline steels is proposed.

Key words: pipeline steel microbiologically influenced corrosion Cu-bearing pipeline steel

Received: 12 October 2018

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Fund: Supported by Doctoral Scientific Research Foundation of Liaoning Province(20180540083);Shenyang Science and Technology Research Funding(18-013-0-53);Project of China Pipeline Research Organization(CPRO2018NO4)

Corresponding Authors: Ke YANG E-mail: kyang@imr.ac.cn

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Xianbo SHI,Chunguang YANG,Wei YAN,Dake XU,Maocheng YAN,Yiyin SHAN,Ke YANG. Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Pipeline Steels. Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection, 2019, 39(1): 9-17.

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Fig.1 MIC morphologies of pipeline steel under disbonded coating^[16]

Fig.2 SRB corrosion morphologies of buried gas transmission pipeline in bog soil^[17]

Table 1 Yield strength (YS), ultimate tensile strength (UTS), elongation (EL) and Charpy V-notch absorbed energy (CVN) of Cu-bearing (X80-Cu) and X80 pipeline steels^[59]

Fig.3 Tensile stress-strain curves and impact fractured spe-cimens (inset) of Cu-bearing (X80-Cu) and X80 pip-eline steels^[59]

Fig.4 Variations of corrosion current (I_corr) with exposure time for Cu-bearing (X80-Cu) and X80 pipeline ste-els in the soil-extract solution with SRB^[57]

Fig.5 Biofilm morphologies of Cu-bearing (X80-Cu) (a) and X80 (b) pipeline steels after immersion for 20 d in soil-extract solution with SRB^[57]

Fig.6 Pitting morphologies of Cu-bearing (X80-Cu) (a) and X80 (b) pipeline steels after immersion for 20 d in soil-extract solution with SRB^[57]

Fig.7 Morphologies of live (green dots)/dead (red dots) P. aeruginosa on the surfaces of Cu-bearing (X80-Cu) (a) and X80 (b) pipeline steels after immersion for 5 d^[59]

Fig.8 Pitting morphologies of Cu-bearing (X80-Cu) (a) and X80 (b) pipeline steels after immersion for 14 d in the solution with P. aeruginosa^[59]

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