Corrosion Management of Pipelines More Important than Ever

摘要

Both corrosion-management and pipeline-integrity management plans, while different, are instrumental in ensuring pipeline safety and performance. It is important that engineers design pipeline corrosion-control methods for internal and external protection. If they do not, corrosion issues may result in more costs associated with failures, adjustment of the design to install corrosion control methods after the system is in operation, and additional replacement and repairs. These extra costs, in many ways, can be avoided or at least minimized if a corrosion management plan is considered from the beginning of the project.