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A Surface Science Approach Towards Understanding and Mitigating Fouling and Corrosion in Crude Oil Refinery Units
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This research presents a detailed investigation of corrosion and organic fouling on several important metallurgies in a broad range of crude oils. Throughout a refinery, fouling of metallic heat-transfer surfaces is a ubiquitous, costly, and complex phenomena, made increasingly challenging by...
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Corrosion Assessment and Mechanisms of Materials in Advanced Thermal Energy Production Systems
DownloadFall 2020
Advanced pressurized oxy-fuel combustion and subsequent supercritical CO2 (s-CO2) transportation technologies are being developed for high energy conversion efficiency and significant reduction of greenhouse gas emission at advanced thermal power plants. However, materials knowledge gaps exist on...
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Effect of unloading rate on surface crack growth during underload cycles in X-65 pipeline steel exposed to near-neutral pH environments
DownloadSpring 2019
This thesis has studied the crack growth behaviour of fully-coated, partially-coated, and fully-exposed semi-elliptical cracks immersed in a near-neutral pH environment with an applied cathodic potential. The effects of adding a one-hour monotonic hold and waveform shape were explored. The...