Managing Corrosion/Accurately predicting corrosion in the energy and chemical process sectors could help reduce costs

摘要

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has agreed to provide roughly half the funding for a 2-million US dollars project designed to expand the capabilities of ASSET, an emerging piece of software that can predict the corrosion of commercial alloys in high-temperature environments. The software, known as ASSET (Alloy Selection System for Elevated Temperatures), was developed by Shell Oil and further advanced by the DOE and a growing consortium of companies which are funding the other half of the current project. As a result, the program's database now contains more than 10.2 million hours of corrosion data for 91 commercial alloys, including many nickel-containing stainless steels and several nickel alloys. The software operates on a personal computer using the Windows operating system.