Effect of Fluid Scouring on Sulfate Reducting Bacteria Induced Corrosion of Pipeline Steel

doi:10.11902/1005.4537.2022.321

Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection

2023, Vol. 43

Issue (5): 1087-1093 DOI: 10.11902/1005.4537.2022.321

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Effect of Fluid Scouring on Sulfate Reducting Bacteria Induced Corrosion of Pipeline Steel

GAO Qiuying¹^,², ZENG Wenguang¹^,², WANG Heng¹, LIU Yuancong³, HU Junying³(

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^1.Petroleum Engineering Technology Research Institute of Sinopec Northwest Oilfield Company, Urumqi 830011, China
^2.Key Labortory for EOR of Fracture Vuggy Reservoir of Sinopec, Urumqi 830011, China
^3.School of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China

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Abstract

Erosion corrosion and sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) induced corrosion bring harm to the safe operation of pipeline. In this article, the SRB induced corrosion of pipeline steel L360 in fluid scouring environment was studied comparatively by means of numerical simulation and simulation experiments. The predicted cloud map and particle motion trajectory map of the distribution for corrosion areas of pipeline steel were obtained by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Results showed that the most serious corrosion located at the bottom of the pipeline, the corrosion degree at the outlet of the pipeline was higher than that at the entrance of the pipeline. Electrochemical methods and surface analysis methods were used to characterize the SRB induced corrosion in solid-liquid two-phase flowing environment. Results show that when the biofilm of SRB did not exist on the metal surface (i.e., no biofilm of SRB has been formed on the steel through a pre-treatment), the scouring corrosion is dominant, the metal surface shows obvious scouring corrosion characteristics, and the corrosion products are mainly iron oxides. When SRB has formed a dense biofilm on the metal surface (after a proper pre-treatment), SRB corrosion dominates, and the biofilm will inhibit the scouring corrosion, but the life activity of SRB under the film will induce the electron exchange with the metal matrix, so that SRB induced corrosion occurs, and the corrosion products consist mainly of sulfur and iron compounds.

Key words: erosion corrosion sulfate reducing bacteria CFD simulation electrochemical analysis

Received: 19 October 2022 32134.14.1005.4537.2022.321

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Fund: Key Project Topics of Sinopec(319016-5)

Corresponding Authors: HU Junying, E-mail: hujunying01@yeah.net

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GAO Qiuying, ZENG Wenguang, WANG Heng, LIU Yuancong, HU Junying. Effect of Fluid Scouring on Sulfate Reducting Bacteria Induced Corrosion of Pipeline Steel. Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection, 2023, 43(5): 1087-1093.

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Fig.1 Particle traces and corrosion area at different inlet velocities: (a) 0.6 m/s, (b) 1 m/s, (c) 1.5 m/s, (d) 2 m/s

Fig.2 OCP of samples at different test time

Fig.3 EIS of samples at different test time without (a) and with (b) SRB pre-film, and equivalent circuit (c)

Table 1 Fitting parameters of EIS of samples

Fig.4 Potentiodynamic polarization curves of samples

Fig.5 Surface corrosion morphology (a, b) and EDS result (c) of sample without pre-film treatment

Fig.6 Surface corrosion morphology (a, b) and EDS result (c) of sample with pre-film treatment

Table 2 Number of SRB at different test time

Fig.7 Number of SRB tested by extinction dilution method: (a) scour 0 h, (b) scour 8 h

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