Failure Analysis of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion

Failure Analysis of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion serves as a complete guide to corrosion failure analysis with an emphasis on the diagnosis of microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC). By applying the principles of chemistry, microbiology, and metallurgy, readers will be able to reliably determine the mechanistic cause of corrosion damage and failures and select the appropriate methods for mitigating future corrosion incidents.

FEATURES

• Provides background information on the forensic process, types of data or evidence needed to perform the analysis, industrial case studies, details on the MIC failure analysis process, and protocols for field and lab use
• Presents up-to-date advances in molecular technologies and their application to corrosion failure investigations
• Offers specific guidelines for conducting MIC failure analyses and case studies to illustrate their application
• Examines state-of-the-art information on MIC analytical tools and methods

With authors with expertise in microbiology, corrosion, materials, and failure investigation, this book provides tools for engineers, scientists, and technologists to successfully combat MIC issues.

Preface

Part I : Introduction
Chapter 1 : History of Failure Analysis for Microbiologically In%uFB02uenced Corrosion
Chapter 2 : Review and Gap Analysis of MIC Failure Investigation Methods in Alberta’s Oil and Gas Sector
Chapter 3 : A Practical Approach to Corrosion Failure Analysis
Chapter 4 : Analytical Methods for MIC Assessment
Chapter 5 : Microbiologically In%uFB02uenced Corrosion Mechanisms
Chapter 6 : Iron to Gas : The Mechanisms behind Methanogen-Induced Microbiologically In%uFB02uenced Corrosion (Mi-MIC) and Their Importance for the Industry and Infrastructure

Part II : MIC Failure Analysis Case Studies
Chapter 7 : Failure Investigation of a Leak in the Offshore Water Injection System
Chapter 8 : Failure Analysis for Internal Corrosion of Crude Oil Transporting Pipelines
Chapter 9 : Failure Analysis of Microbiologically In%uFB02uenced Corrosion in Storage Tanks Containing B20 Biodiesel
Chapter 10 : Elemental Sulfur Corrosion : A Case Study
Chapter 11 : MIC Investigation of Stainless Steel Seal Ring Corrosion Failure in a Floating Production Storage and Of%uFB02oading (FPSO) Vessel
Chapter 12 : Failure Analysis of Tubing in an Electrical Submersible Pump Well
Chapter 13 : Pitting Biocorrosion in Internal Pipeline Welds
Chapter 14 : Impact of Metallurgical Properties on Pitting Corrosion in a High-Pressure Seawater Injection Pipeline
Chapter 15 : Appearance of MIC in Well-Flowlines Producing from a Sour Reservoir

Part III : MIC in Other Engineered Systems
Chapter 16 : Failure Analysis of Pipe in a Fire Suppression System
Chapter 17 : Analysis of Field Observations of Severe MIC of FPSO Mooring Chains
Chapter 18 : MIC in the Fire Water Sprinkler System at St : Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
Chapter 19 : Microbiologically In%uFB02uenced Corrosion in Fire Protection Systems : A Material Problem or a Problem of Microbial Activity?

Part IV : MIC Failure Analysis Processes and Protocols
Chapter 20 : Determining the Root Cause for Corrosion Failures
Chapter 21 : MIC Sampling Strategies
Chapter 22 : Microbiological Sampling and Preservation for Evaluating Microbial Communities in Oil%uFB01eld and Other Biological Samples Using Molecular Microbiological Methods
Chapter 23 : Implications of Sampling and Chemistry
Chapter 24 : Work%uFB02ow of Transportation, Sampling, and Documentation of Topsides Pipework with a Leak from an Offshore Oil Platform
Chapter 25 : Standards for MIC Management in Engineered Systems
Chapter 26 : Standard Operating Procedures for Sampling Onshore and Offshore Assets for Genomic, Microbial and Chemical Analyses and/or Experiments

Index