Open AccessEffect of pH in SRB (ATCC 7757) Growth for Oil and Gas API X 70 Steel Pipes
Author(s) -
Zuraini Din,
Malaysia Kolej Komuniti Bandar Penawar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of engineering and science research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2289-7127
DOI - 10.26666/rmp.jesr.2019.1.4
Subject(s) - corrosion , metallurgy , carbon steel , sulfate reducing bacteria , seawater , pitting corrosion , materials science , pipeline transport , environmental science , metal , waste management , environmental engineering , geology , engineering , oceanography , sulfate
In the oil and gas industry, pipeline is the major transportation medium to deliver the products. According to [1] containment of pipeline loss to indicate that corrosion has been found to be the most predominant cause for failures of buried metal pipes. MIC has been identified as one of the major causes of underground pipeline corrosion failure and Sulphate Reducing Bacteria (SRB) are the main reason causing MIC, by accelerating corrosion rate. The objectives of this study is to study the SRB growth, Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 7757 due to pH and determine the optimum value controlling the bacteria growth on the internal pipe of carbon steel grade API X70. The result shows that the optimum SRB growth is at range pH 5-5 to 6.5 and the exposure time of 7 to 14 days. At pH 6.5 the maximum corrosion rate is 1.056 mm/year. Corrosion phenomena on carbon steel in the study proven had influence by pH and time. From this result pitting corrosion strongly attack at carbon steel pipe. In the future project, it is recommended to study the effect of different pipe location for example the pipeline under seawater.