Digitalized Corrosion Control Documents for Enhanced Plant Reliability and Asset Integrity

Paper ID: C2025-00257 ABSTRACT: Industry Recommended Practices, such as API-RP-970 - Corrosion Control Documents (CCD) and API-RP-584 - Integrity Operating Windows (IOW) provide a best-practices framework to define principal integrity and degradation concerns, correlate multiple unit operational parameters such as feed rate, composition, process parameters, damage mechanisms, metallurgy etc. Such a framework is designed to give operators the ability to identify key corrosion circuits and equipment, primary damage modes in these circuits, critical operating limits (IOW) and the appropriate operating philosophy to prevent and control corrosion, optimize inspections, and drive enhanced reliability and safety.
To mitigate the complexity of different types of data and in-depth technical insights captured in a CCD, a digitalized CCD solution has been developed to provide a framework to easily identify and monitor the most critical aspects of plant operating units. This framework is designed to dynamically link to the process historian and Integrity Data Management Systems (IDMS) to monitor key process parameters as well as pinpoint specific aspects of unit performance to ensure operational integrity. The ability to correlate potential corrosion damage to dynamically linked process data facilitates implementation of real time, dynamic IOWs to correlate corrosion to true parametric damage drivers, leading to improved unit productivity and profitability