Minimum pipeline fluid velocity?

[Kingboru]

I have been looking for a reference that I had found in a technical article some time around the first of the year. This article had commented that fluid velocities that are kept above 3 m/s will minimize MIC in pipelines. Would anyone know where I may have found this. I have searched for several days and I am unable to uncover my source.

 

[SJones]

Don't know where you found it but the following paper would support your expectation:

NACE Corrosion 2007, Paper 07515

Steve Jones
Materials & Corrosion Engineer

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/83b/b04

 

[BigInch]

Fluid velocities above 3 m/s might also subject your system to unwanted waterhammer pressures, or subject your pipe wall to increased erosion of thickness over time, so be carefull with arbritrarily setting such high minimum velocities. 3 m/s is a rule of thumb maximum velocity for long pipelines, 3 ft/s being the rule of thumb minimum.

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