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JOURNAL OF NATURAL GAS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 101, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2022.104547
Keywords
Hydrogen-induced cracking; Corrosion; Hydrogen sulfide environment; Blistering
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- International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER) - World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan
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This paper presents a review of the current state of scientific understanding of Hydrogen-Induced Cracking (HIC), a corrosion phenomenon in low-to medium-strength steels driven by the precipitation of gaseous hydrogen molecules within cracks. HIC is typically observed in sour (H2S containing) environments and involves multiple steps including hydrogen uptake, diffusion, precipitation, and crack growth driven by hydrogen gas pressure. Despite decades of study, a full mechanistic understanding of HIC remains elusive, but the maturation of characterization techniques offers hope for future advancements.
This paper presents a review of the current state of scientific understanding of the corrosion phenomenon known as Hydrogen-Induced Cracking (HIC). HIC is defined as cracking in low-to medium-strength steels where cracking is driven by the precipitation of gaseous hydrogen molecules within the crack, which typically occurs in sour (H2S containing) environments. It is a complicated phenomenon, encompassing a surface reaction for hydrogen uptake, hydrogen diffusion to vulnerable microstructural sites, hydrogen gas precipitation creating an incipient crack, and crack growth driven by hydrogen gas pressure within the crack. While HIC has been studied for decades, understanding of the critical factors controlling each step of the phenomenon has been elusive. The maturation of many characterization techniques gives hope that a full mechanistic understanding may occur in the near future.
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