Corrosion & Erosion Monitoring
Monitor both corrosion and erosion risk and impact to help your process operate at its maximum capability.
Monitor both corrosion and erosion risk and impact to help your process operate at its maximum capability.
Corrosion and erosion-related failures are often responsible for significant downtime in process facilities, dramatically impacting both operational reliability and profitability. In critical systems, this degradation both reduces asset lifetime and compromises mechanical integrity, often leading to production losses and potential safety incidents. More traditional reactive maintenance processes mean damage is detected after substantial metal loss has occurred, resulting in limited and expensive mitigation.
Emerson’s corrosion and erosion monitoring solutions can help you gain a complete understanding of your corrosion and erosion risks and the effect of those risks on your plant. This data can be used to make better informed decisions - maximizing plant performance, safety, and profitability.
Continuously monitor the health of your assets and the impact of corrosion and erosion with Rosemount Wireless Ultrasonic Thickness Transmitters. These non-intrusive, permanently installed devices monitor the wall thickness of your assets and provides you with reliable, accurate data to make more informed decisions and keep your operations running at their peak potential.
Wireless monitoring for wellhead casing and tubing integrity reduces costs and improves maintenance efficiency.
Improve plant uptime and decrease maintenance costs using high quality corrosion data to monitor steam drum integrity
Monitor corrosion in amine strippers to Improve plant uptime and decrease maintenance costs
Optimize maintenance and maximize plant availability with high quality corrosion data for ethylene storage tanks
Gain insight into your ethylene facility and de-ethanizer integrity using high quality corrosion data
Improve plant uptime and decrease maintenance costs for ethylene transfer line exchangers using accurate corrosion data.
Increase ethylene plant availability with continuous corrosion monitoring of utilities areas.
Non-Intrusive, Real-Time Monitoring for Uninterrupted Asset Protection
Prevent failure and keep cracked gas compressors from causing unplanned downtime in your ethylene production facility.
Improve maintenance and safety in gas retrieval operations by monitoring solids, fluid erosivity and pipework metal loss
Optimize Production with Seamless, Non-Intrusive Sand Monitoring Solutions
Understand your erosion risk with the Rosemount SAM42 Acoustic Particle Monitor. This non-intrusive, permanently installed device listens to the solids in the process stream and measures the intensity of the solids in real-time to help you detect erosion risk before damage, helping to extend the life of your assets.
Improve maintenance and safety in gas retrieval operations by monitoring solids, fluid erosivity and pipework metal loss
Optimize Production with Seamless, Non-Intrusive Sand Monitoring Solutions
Detect real-time corrosion and erosion changes within the process fluid with the Rosemount 4390 Series of Corrosion and Erosion Wireless Transmitters. These transmitters provide accurate and highly sensitive corrosion and erosion monitoring data via probes that directly contact the process fluid, helping you control your corrosion or erosion risk and optimize your operations.
Gain better visibility into the health of your assets with a network of predictive intelligence. Emerson’s Plantweb Insight Corrosion and Erosion Applications provide real-time analysis and insights, helping you prevent corrosion or erosion issues before they occur and enable predictive maintenance for more optimized operations.
The Plantweb Insight Non-Intrusive Corrosion Application provides critical insights on the condition of your assets, helping you to determine predictive maintenance strategies to optimize plant performance. The application securely delivers Rosemount Wireless Ultrasonic Thickness Corrosion and Erosion Transmitter data to your desk through best-in-class visualizations and advanced analytics to help you make better-informed decisions about your assets’ health.
The Inline Corrosion Application provides continuous data of and insights into internal corrosion trends via monitoring of the corrosivity in the process fluid using the Rosemount 4391 Wireless Corrosion Transmitter and internal probes. Make manual data collection a thing of the past with automated, real-time analysis that contributes to the optimal consumption of chemicals, as well as extends equipment life, by implementing corrosion control before damage takes place.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Corrosion occurs through chemical or electrochemical reactions between a material and its environment, resulting in the formation of oxides or other compounds. Erosion is purely mechanical, meaning that material is removed through physical impact by particles, liquids, or gases hitting the surface.
Corrosion and erosion can be measured using weight loss measurements, ultrasonic thickness testing, or electrical probes (which monitor resistance change in an element). Erosion measurements typically involve surface mapping with specialized tools such as radiographs or metal loss testing. Both require monitoring at regular intervals to establish trends and predict when to perform maintenance.
Continuous monitoring can also be deployed using either electrical resistance probes, linear polarization resistance probes, or online ultrasonic thickness sensors, which transmit the wall thickness non-intrusively in real-time.
Corrosion monitoring is the practice of measuring and tracking degradation of metals due to chemical or electrochemical reactions with the environment they are in. Corrosion monitoring helps engineers predict asset lifetime to perform proactive maintenance, optimize corrosion inhibition strategies, and avoid unplanned downtime.
It is effective to combine complementary technologies such as ultrasonic thickness measurements as well as acoustic detection for erosion monitoring. The data can be fed into a centralized monitoring system which uses analytics to identify trends and alert to potential issues early.
While traditional manual testing always requires a couplant gel or fluid in order to transmit an ultrasound between the probe and material, Emerson’s patented ultrasonic technology allows couplant-free permanently installed devices to deliver data directly to the user’s desk. Dry-coupled waveguides and electromagnetic acoustic transducers allow true couplant-free devices to be installed during operation.
