Oilfield production equipment is subjected to extremely hostile environments, often in remote locations, particularly equipment used in North Sea applications. Downtime caused by surface degradation through corrosion and wear and eventual failure of production equipment can be very costly. The need, therefore, exists for surface engineering solutions selected on the basis of an understanding of failure mechanisms. There is also a need for knowledge transfer from the metallurgist/material scientist to the oil production industry and to suppliers of surface engineering solutions if these expensive failures are to be eliminated, or at least controlled, in the future. An approach to these problems is proposed using fundamental tribological test methods developed to provide wear data on the performance of surface engineering solutions of critical oil industry production components. Wear results are presented in the form of a simple numerate design guide.
Wear resistant surfaces for oil industry production equipment - A design engineer's selection procedure
Materials Technology ; 23 , 3 ; 129-137
2008
9 Seiten, 13 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
Ausfallmechanismus , Ausrüstung (Ausstattung) , Erdölindustrie , Erosionskorrosion , Fehleranalyse , Metallurgie , Nordsee , Oberflächenprüfung , Oberflächentechnik , Ölfeld , Optimierungskonzeption , Sicherheitstechnik , Theorie-Experiment-Vergleich , Tribologie , Umgebungsbedingung , verschleißfeste Beschichtung , Verschleißfestigkeit , Werkstoffverschleiß , Werkstoffwissenschaft , Wissensmanagement
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