Repeated measurements and quality of estimates in the analysis of NPP pipeline erosion-corrosion wear

The article presents a study carried out on carbon steel pipe components subjected to erosion-corrosion wear (ECW). Based on the repeated control data, the authors present the calculated ECW characteristics, i.e., the wall-thinning and rate. It is shown that such estimates contain great uncertainty...

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Main Authors: Valery I. Baranenko, Olga M. Gulina, Sergey A. Mironov, Nikolay L. Salnikov
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Language:English
Published: National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI) 2020-11-01
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Online Access:https://nucet.pensoft.net/article/60459/download/pdf/
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author Valery I. Baranenko
Olga M. Gulina
Sergey A. Mironov
Nikolay L. Salnikov
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Olga M. Gulina
Sergey A. Mironov
Nikolay L. Salnikov
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description The article presents a study carried out on carbon steel pipe components subjected to erosion-corrosion wear (ECW). Based on the repeated control data, the authors present the calculated ECW characteristics, i.e., the wall-thinning and rate. It is shown that such estimates contain great uncertainty due to corrosion products deposited on the pipeline inner surface and their migration during operation. In addition, with an increase in the operating time, for example, when the lifetime is extended, the difference between the forecast and the results of control becomes larger. This means that the error in the estimates of the residual lifetime also increases. The study is based on the data of wall thickness measurements of the feedwater pipeline (273×16 mm) and steam pipeline (465×16mm) of nuclear power plants with the VVER-440 reactors, for which a sufficient number of repeated measurements were performed over a large time interval. An analysis is made of the error in estimating the pipeline wall-thinning and ECW rate using Chexal-Horowitz Flow-Accelerated Corrosion (FAC) Model (EKI-02 and EKI-03 software tools). The estimate of the ECW rate according to the above forecast model differs from the estimate according to the current control data by no more than 12.5%, since the corrosion products deposited on the pipeline inner surface wall are leveled at a large time base. When calculating the wall-thinning, due to the obvious filtering of the control data, it is possible to achieve an acceptable accuracy of estimates, i.e., about 16% without upgrading the model.
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spelling doaj.art-b0c221c9729742a5962979a6960877a32022-12-22T01:40:05ZengNational Research Nuclear University (MEPhI)Nuclear Energy and Technology2452-30382020-11-016428128710.3897/nucet.6.6045960459Repeated measurements and quality of estimates in the analysis of NPP pipeline erosion-corrosion wearValery I. Baranenko0Olga M. Gulina1Sergey A. Mironov2Nikolay L. Salnikov3VNIIAES JSCOKB GidropressINPE NRNU MEPhIINPE NRNU MEPhIThe article presents a study carried out on carbon steel pipe components subjected to erosion-corrosion wear (ECW). Based on the repeated control data, the authors present the calculated ECW characteristics, i.e., the wall-thinning and rate. It is shown that such estimates contain great uncertainty due to corrosion products deposited on the pipeline inner surface and their migration during operation. In addition, with an increase in the operating time, for example, when the lifetime is extended, the difference between the forecast and the results of control becomes larger. This means that the error in the estimates of the residual lifetime also increases. The study is based on the data of wall thickness measurements of the feedwater pipeline (273×16 mm) and steam pipeline (465×16mm) of nuclear power plants with the VVER-440 reactors, for which a sufficient number of repeated measurements were performed over a large time interval. An analysis is made of the error in estimating the pipeline wall-thinning and ECW rate using Chexal-Horowitz Flow-Accelerated Corrosion (FAC) Model (EKI-02 and EKI-03 software tools). The estimate of the ECW rate according to the above forecast model differs from the estimate according to the current control data by no more than 12.5%, since the corrosion products deposited on the pipeline inner surface wall are leveled at a large time base. When calculating the wall-thinning, due to the obvious filtering of the control data, it is possible to achieve an acceptable accuracy of estimates, i.e., about 16% without upgrading the model.https://nucet.pensoft.net/article/60459/download/pdf/Erosion-corrosion wear (ECW)life
spellingShingle Valery I. Baranenko
Olga M. Gulina
Sergey A. Mironov
Nikolay L. Salnikov
Repeated measurements and quality of estimates in the analysis of NPP pipeline erosion-corrosion wear
Nuclear Energy and Technology
Erosion-corrosion wear (ECW)
life
title Repeated measurements and quality of estimates in the analysis of NPP pipeline erosion-corrosion wear
title_full Repeated measurements and quality of estimates in the analysis of NPP pipeline erosion-corrosion wear
title_fullStr Repeated measurements and quality of estimates in the analysis of NPP pipeline erosion-corrosion wear
title_full_unstemmed Repeated measurements and quality of estimates in the analysis of NPP pipeline erosion-corrosion wear
title_short Repeated measurements and quality of estimates in the analysis of NPP pipeline erosion-corrosion wear
title_sort repeated measurements and quality of estimates in the analysis of npp pipeline erosion corrosion wear
topic Erosion-corrosion wear (ECW)
life
url https://nucet.pensoft.net/article/60459/download/pdf/
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