The Rusty Hole

Axess explain various types of corrosion, including uniform, galvanic, pitting, crevice, intergranular, and stress corrosion cracking (SCC), highlighting their unique characteristics and specific prevention strategies. Furthermore, they stress the importance of considering numerous factors beyond initial costs, such as environmental conditions, mechanical properties, design parameters, and long-term reliability, advocating for upfront investment in high-quality materials to achieve significant overall cost savings and enhanced safety throughout a system's lifecycle.

Since flexible risers usually have both polymer and metallic layers, monitoring the corrosion of the metal components is essential as well.Corrosion Coupons: These are small metal pieces attached to the riser to monitor the rate of corrosion over time.Galvanic Corrosion Monitoring: Monitoring the galvanic potential between the polymer and the metal layers can provide insights into corrosion effects, especially in underwater environments.

Axess offers solutions for managing access fittings used in corrosion control systems. Their direct injection technology allows for safe, online chemical treatment through repurposed or new fittings, even in space-restricted areas, potentially reducing costs and improving integrity by eliminating side connections. For fittings no longer needed, Axess provides patented plug and abandonment methods involving purging and sealing to prevent degradation and address the risks associated with "dead legs." Additionally, existing monitoring fittings can be repurposed for various functions like chemical injection or sampling, ensuring they remain within maintenance programs.

Axess received the MECOC EXPO 2025 vendor award for innovative product solutions in Abu Dhabi last week. This is a wonderful achievement and will undoubtedly help Axess's aim of making intrusive monitoring systems safer and easier. Listen and learn how it works and why it's changing the monitoring landscape.

In 2008 two technicians made an error when re-installing a hydraulic plug, they'd not locked the carrier plug into the correct position. Procedures were not followed and training programs had to be re-vamped. Since this incident, Axess has developed the Janus Guard for Hydraulic Retrieval which will prevent this incident from re-occurring. A simple device that should be in every toolbox. get in touch to learn more [email protected]

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Corrosion can be extremely costly, and control is vital for the integrity management of critical assets. One of the simplest ways to monitor your facility is with the use of corrosion coupons. The corrosion coupon is intrusively inserted into the process system and periodically removed to conduct weight loss and visual analysis.At Axess we seem to have a growing client base with problem - inaccurately sized devices rendering their corrosion coupon data meaningless.

Axess offers a complete range of high pressure access fitting assemblies for installation of intrusive corrosion monitoring, chemical injection, and sampling devices. The product range comprises both the 2" mechanical system as well as the 2" hydraulic system. The 2" retrievable access system is a high pressure access system for the installation of devices into pipework and vessels. The system allows insertion and retrieval of the devices under pressure, enabling monitoring to be maintained continuously without the need to shut down the process.Axess 2" retrievable access system products are compatible and interchangeable with other manufacturers standard products.

There are many factors to consider when selecting suitable locations for the installation of Corrosion and Erosion Monitoring and Chemical Injection points. Pipe geometry, flow conditions and process fluid can all influence the occurrence and the development rate of corrosion and erosion within a facility, as well as affect the rate at which chemicals mix and disperse within the process.

The safety industry has an imperative to ask this question about any incident: avoidable or inevitable? This is how ‘lessons learned’ work. In 2012 a fatality occurred in the field during a corrosion monitoring routine exercise to retrieve and replace a corrosion probe. Standard integrity management operations. This incident raised the question for Axess Corrosion in Houston, a business concerned with not only why we monitor but how, and the answer was ‘it was both’. With the technology in the field at that time the incident was inevitable, and with Axess’ experience and innovation, it could become avoidable.

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