Corrosion-cavitation-erosion: surface morphology study of a carbon steel in a multiphasic saline bath

ABSTRACT During the production of petroleum and gas, the equipments employed for this activity are subjected to synergetic wear mechanisms, such as corrosion, corrosion-cavitation and corrosion-cavitation-erosion. Laboratory experiments has been performed to reproduce some of these mechanisms, however, sometimes the tests is not capable to recreate the complexities caused by hydrodynamic flows, physico-chemical and mechanical non-linearities. The main objective of this work is to evaluate specimens of low carbon steel under laboratory conditions, such as corrosive, cavitative-corrosive (CO2) a...