Water content monitoring equipment and online control devices will be installed on crude distillation and hydro-skimming units, especially in aggressive media, for real-time control of corrosion processes. Certain measures of the corrosion prevention program were carried out on a number of process units during the fall-spring repair campaign of the company: crude distillation unit AVT-4 was tested for the first time, and special devices were installed into pipelines for measuring the rate of metal corrosion.
“The equipment modernization and corrosion prevention program of the Ryazan Oil Refinery is being implemented according to the schedule. Almost 25% of the program is already accomplished, including protection of key process units,” said Mikhail Davydov, Senior Vice President, Refining, TNK-BP.
Corrosion is one of the main problems of oil refining. According to statistical data from all over the world, corrosion accounts for 25% of all equipment failures. Implementation of the integrated corrosion prevention program launched in 2009 will reduce the volume of equipment cleanup and replacement works, improve the reliability of equipment, and reduce the probability of off-schedule shutdowns of process units.