Corrosion Behavior of Casing Steels 13Cr and N80 During Sequestration in an Impure Carbon Dioxide Environment

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Corrosion Behavior of Casing Steels 13Cr and N80 During Sequestration in an Impure Carbon Dioxide Environment

LIU Guangsheng¹^,², WANG Weijun¹^,², ZHOU Pei¹^,², TAN Jinhao³^,⁴, DING Hongxin³^,⁴, ZHANG Wei³^,⁴, XIANG Yong³^,⁴(

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1 Changqing Oilfield Company Oil and Gas Technology Research Institute, Xi'an 710018, China
2 National Engineering Laboratory of Low Permeability Oil and Gas Fields, Xi'an 710018, China
3 School of Mechanical and Storage Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
4 Laboratory for Materials Failure and Protection of Low Carbon Energy Equipment, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China

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LIU Guangsheng, WANG Weijun, ZHOU Pei, TAN Jinhao, DING Hongxin, ZHANG Wei, XIANG Yong. Corrosion Behavior of Casing Steels 13Cr and N80 During Sequestration in an Impure Carbon Dioxide Environment. Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection, 2024, 44(5): 1200-1212.

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Abstract

Corrosion of metallic materials, used as wellbore wall is a critical issue that influences the safety of carbon sequestration. This work focuses on understanding the corrosion behavior of casing steels in high-temperature and high-pressure CO₂ storage environments. Herein, the corrosion behavior of two steels N80 and 13Cr in supercritical CO₂-rich water phases containing impurities (SO₂, NO₂, and O₂) was investigated via a high-temperature and high-pressure reactor by various pressure and stress conditions, aiming to simulate the real service conditions of carbon sequestration. The corrosion rate of steels was determined with mass-loss method, while the films formed on the steel surface were characterized by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffractometry (XRD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The results indicated that increasing the pressure led to higher rates of uniform corrosion and pitting corrosion for N80 steel. However, the pressure had inapparent effect on uniform corrosion of 13Cr steel, although severe pitting corrosion was observed by pressure of 20 MPa. Furthermore, the applied tensile stress could induce damage of the corrosion product scales on both N80 and 13Cr steels to certain extent, nevertheless, no cracks were observed on the surface of the steel substrate.

Key words: supercritical CO₂ corrosion process stress corrosion CO₂ storage

Received: 12 October 2023 32134.14.1005.4537.2023.322

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Fund: National Natural Science Foundation of China(52271082);Beijing Natural Science Foundation(2222074)

Corresponding Authors: XIANG Yong, E-mail: xiangy@cup.edu.cn

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Table 1 Chemical composition of experimental materials (mass fraction / %)

Fig.1 High temperature and high-pressure reactor

Table 2 Pressure group experiment scheme

Table 3 Stress group experiment scheme

Fig.2 Corrosion rates of N80 and 13Cr steels after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC under different pressure conditions

Fig.3 SEM images of corrosion products of N80 (a-c) and 13Cr (d-f) steels after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC under the pressure of 10 MPa (a, d), 15 MPa (b, e) and 20 MPa (c, f)

Fig.4 Cross-sectional morphologies of N80 (a-c) and 13Cr (d-f) steels after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC under the pressure of 10 MPa (a, d), 15 MPa (b, e) and 20 MPa (c, f)

Fig.5 Pitting rates of N80 and 13Cr steels after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC under different pressure conditions

Fig.6 3D surface morphologies of N80 (a-c) and 13Cr (d-f) steels after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC under the pressure of 10 MPa (a, d), 15 MPa (b, e), 20 MPa (c, f)

Fig.7 XRD patterns of N80 steel after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC under different pressure conditions

Fig.8 XRD patterns of 13Cr steel after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC under different pressure conditions

Fig.9 XPS of Cr, Fe and O of 13Cr steels after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC under the pressure of 10 MPa (a), 15 MPa (b) and 20 MPa (c)

Table 4 Binding energy of corrosion products of 13Cr steel after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC under different pressure conditions

Fig.10 Surface morphologies of N80 and 13Cr steels after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC and 20 MPa under the loading stress of 0 (a, e), 25% σ_s (b, f), 50% σ_s (c, g) and 75% σ_s (d, h)

Fig.11 Surface morphologies of N80 (a-d) and 13Cr (e-h) steels after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC and 20 MPa under the loading stress of 0 (a, e), 25% σ_s (b, f), 50% σ_s (c, g) and 75% σ_s (d, h) after removing the corrosion products

Fig.12 3D surface morphologies of N80 steel after 72 h of corrosion in water-rich phase at 120^oC and 20 MPa under the loading stress of 0 (a), 25% σ_s (b), 50% σ_s (c) and 75% σ_s (d)

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