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issolved chlorides and other salts contained in a great quantity in seawater cause localized corrosion of stainless steels and other passive metals. The corrosion can take the form of pitting, crevice and intergranular corrosion, and, in
high temperature seawater, stress corrosion cracking (SCC). The chemicals also promote corrosion of steels and copper alloys, particularly on the high flow-rate side. The high electrical conductivity of seawater promotes macro-cell corrosion such as galvanic corrosion and differential- aeration-cell-corrosion, including differential-flow-rate-cellcorrosion. If you fail to protect your seawater pumps from corrosion, they will corrode and become damaged in a short time, resulting in shutdown or critical safety problems. Ebaras experience in solving these varied corrosion problems include corrosion experiments in the seas around Japan, the Arabian Gulf, the Red Sea and other seawater environments of the world. This is in addition to experimental and theoretical studies based on materials science and electrochemistry in our laboratories to clarify corrosion mechanism of materials used and develop highly marine corrosion resistant materials and advanced corrosion protection technologies. One achievement is the worlds first elucidation of the SCC mechanism in the Ni-Resist (austenitic Ni) cast irons and development of effective countermeasures against it, which was attained in the middle of the 1980s1.
require effective countermeasures against it. Figure 1 shows an instance of crevice corrosion that occurred on the flange of a Type 316 Stainless Steel (SS) seawater pump that was in service for five years. The countermeasures available are grouped into two methods. One method is to use relatively economical materials such as Type 316 SS; the other method is to use highly corrosion resistant materials such as Super Duplex SSe and Super Austenitic SSa. The former group includes filler used in the crevice, crevice corrosion resistant alloys overlaid on the crevice surface2, and cathodic protection applied3. The selection of materials to be used should be made with the cost, maintainability, and effective life span taken into account.
Coating technology
Ebara has developed and commercialized a crevice corrosion resistant overlaying alloy, Crevelloy (Ebaras trade name)2. This material utilizes the highly corrosion resistant alloy Ni-Fe30Cr-10Mo series overlaid on the base metal of relatively low priced Type 316 SS, which helps prevent crevice corrosion. This product has been supplied in seawater pumps casings, shafts, sleeves, and pipes for more than 20 years. In particular, no other alternatives can be taken for the variable vane type pump in which the seal portion of the vane and the hub constitutes a sliding
Countermeasures
Figure 2. Potential Distribution inside vertical seawater pump analyzed by boundary element method.
Stainless steels, which are the most widely used seawater pump material, are sensitive to crevice corrosion and
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References
[1] Matsuho Miyasaka and Naoaki Ogure: Corrosion, 43,[10],pp.582588 (1987). [2] Matsuho Miyasaka, Shuhei Nakahama, Juichi Ishiguro: 51th Annual Assembly of the International Institute of Welding, Hamburg, Germany, pp.29-43 (1998). [3] Matsuho Miyasaka, Hirokazu Takayama, Kenji Amaya, Shigeru Aoki: Proceedings of the 17th International Pump Users Symposium, Houston, USA, pp.121-129 (2000). CONTACT
Takafumi Maehara General manager Project Planning Office Fluid Machinery & Systems Company Ebara Corporation Tel: + 81-3-3743-6363 F ax: +81-3-3741-4966 E-mail: maehara.takafumi@ebara.com Web: www.ebara.com
high average annual temperature. It is expected that seawater in the Middle East is more corrosive than seawater of any other areas of the world, but the corrosion resistance of varied materials in seawater in the Middle East have not been quantitatively compared with each other. In
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