SUPERCRITICAL CO_2-CORROSION OF STEELS IN CCS ENVIRONMENT

摘要

The CCS technique involves the compression of emission gasses in deep geological layers. To guarantee the safety of the site, CO_2-corrosion of the injection pipe steels has to be given special attention when engineering CCS-sites. To get to know the corrosion behaviour samples of the heat treated steel 1.7225 42CrMo4, used for casing, and the stainless injection-pipe steel 1.4034 X46Cr13 were kept at T=60°C and ambient pressure as well as p=100 bar for 700 h - 8000 h in a CO_2-saturated synthetic aquifer environment similar to possible geological on-shore CCS-sites in the northern German Basin. The isothermal corrosion behaviour obtained by mass gain of the steels in the gas phase, the liquid phase and the intermediate phase gives surface corrosion rates around 0.1 to 0.8 mm/year at ambient pressure and much lower about 0.02 to 0.2 mm/year at 100 bar where the CO_2 is in its supercritical state. Severe pit corrosion with pit heights around 4.5 mm are only located on the 42CrMo4 steel. Main phase of the continuous complicated multi-layered carbonate/oxide structure is siderite FeCO_3 in both types of steel.