External Damage by Corrosion on Steel Gas Pipeline

Abstract

Under degraded coatings and inadequate cathodic protection (CP) steel gas pipelines exposed to environmentally assisted multiple corrosion. In electrochemical process corrosion, dissolution of the iron is an anodic reaction. The nature of the cathodic process depends on the availability of oxygen and implies aerobics or anaerobics conditions. The most severe corrosion process is that of microbiologically influenced corrosion. Damage can be a localized corrosion or SCC corrosion (Stress corrosion cracking). Microstructural damage is intergranular type at low stress intensity and implies the interaction of the material with the corrosive environment characterized by the apparition of corrosion microcracks.