Performance and Critical Issues of Polymer Liners in Pipeline Industry: A review

Abstract

Abstract Recently, the material that industry usually used for pipelines are of carbon steel. The pipeline function is to transport crude oil from production sources to process plants. Unfortunately, crude oil consist water and can cause corrosion to the internal pipeline and subsequently result to pipeline damage. The repair process of the corroded pipelines is not economical to oil industry, as such, to protect the pipelines against the internal abrasion and destruction, cost effective measures are essential. Nowadays, the advances of this technology employed the use of special polymers as protective liners against internal pipelines corrosion. However, despite improved properties (chemical resistivity), critical issues related to these polymers arise which include the thermal, aging and friction effects with slurry and have attracted the attentions of research stakeholders from both academia and oil industry. Consequently, this review reports recent advances of the performance of these special polymeric materials with emphasis on their structures and properties. polymers have demonstrated certain important properties to serve as good materials for lining in the oil and gas internal pipelines industry. They have the ability to prevent or reduce the internal pipeline corrosion. The limitation is the critical issues that need further research to improve the thermochemical and mechanical properties.