Monthly Members Meeting - Thursday April 27, 2006

Corrosion Damage & Control

Presentation Abstract

Recently developed online, real-time corrosion monitoring technologies have increased the accuracy of corrosion data and created the ability to catalog each and every process upset and their effect on the goal of increasing productivity by reducing corrosion damage, unplanned shutdowns and resulting downtime. 

This presentation details new technology currently available for prediction, monitoring and management of general and localized corrosion in a field or plant environment. Data can easily be integrated with existing process-control systems and software platforms to enable asset-management that includes an assessment for the costs associated with corrosion damage and control.

                             Corrosion Facts & Figures

•        $50B per year spent by the Global Process Industries on Corrosion
            increasing due to aging plants, sour crude stocks, higher thru-puts
•         90% of Corrosion damage caused in only 10% of the time
            conventional offline approaches can’t identify root cause & are
            labor intensive
•         70-90% of all failures due to “local” corrosion
            traditional approaches can’t detect local or pitting corrosion
•         Major cause of costly downtime ….capacity loss
            50% is planned but 50% is “unplanned”
•         High inspection costs to try and find it
           after the damage has been caused; little info on root cause
•         Major component of maintenance & turnaround costs
           could be significantly reduced with better real time data
•         Safety & environmental risks
           a corrosion “tachometer” is needed for the operator       
•         Optimize chemical inhibitor regime
           via real time control vs offline methods today

 

Speaker Bio

Darren Clark:

Hired on with Honeywell as a Corrosion Specialist based in Calgary in Nov 2005.  Over 8 years experience in the Alberta oil and gas production and process environments working within the corrosion R&D and technical service departments of a specialty chemical company.  Graduated in 1998 with a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biology.  

Location: LeBiftheque Steakhouse in Etobicoke

Dinner: 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Cost: $10 members and $20 non-members

Presentation: 7 PM (no charge for attending presentation only)

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