The Elementary Attributes and ‎Denotations of the Corrosion in ‎‎Petroleum Refining Event

Mr. Suresh Aluvihara, Prof. Jagath K. Premachandra and Mr. E.A.A.K.P. Edirisinghe‎

Volume 2 Issue 1 | Dec 2020

DOI: 10.31841/KJET.2021.10

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Abstract

Crude oil is a natural resource for the generations of energy, occurred ‎based on the ‎phenomenon of the natural environment that also composed ‎with most of hydrocarbons and ‎some of trace compounds which are ‎having various properties including the corrosiveness. ‎Anticipations of this ‎research were the investigations of the spirit of the corrosion of seven ‎‎different types of ferrous metals with respect to the two different types of ‎crude oils in both ‎quality and quantity. The chemical compositions of ‎selected metals, the strength of ‎leading corrosive compounds of both ‎crude oils, corrosion rates of each metal with respect to ‎both crude oils and ‎the aspects of corrosion were tested and determined by the standard ‎‎methodologies and instruments. The concluded results interpret that ‎some of the metals are ‎having corrosion protection ability while especially ‎stainless steels were having relatively ‎lower corrosion rates, higher ‎compositions of corrosive compounds in Das Blend accordingly ‎with the ‎concentrations of such compounds, salts play a dominant role in the ‎metallic ‎corrosion basically at the room temperatures that the experiments ‎were performed, formation ‎of FeS, Fe2O3, corrosion cracks and some ‎irregular distributions of cavities on the corroded ‎metal surfaces under ‎these processes and also some property changes of the surfaces of metals ‎‎due to the corrosion. ‎


Keywords: Crude oils, Corrosive compounds, Ferrous metals, Weight loss ‎method, Destruction‎