INTERNAL COATINGS on the rise

摘要

The real inside story on internal flow coatings for gas pipelines, as revealed by Craig Thomas, Senior Consultant, UK. Natural gas transmission pipelines are critical elements of infrastructure. They supply not only energy, nationally and trans-nationally, but can be viewed as strategic components required for a country or region's long-term sustainable growth and development. The operation and pumping costs of a gas transmission pipeline are significant, and the capacity of gas delivered by the pipeline largely depends on three key design parameters - pipeline diameter, length and surface roughness.