Problem statement
Carbon dioxide system are one of the common environments in
the pipeline steel and process equipment used in the extraction, production and
transportation of oil and gas in the petroleum industry where corrosion occurs.
There are many effects of pipeline, cracking and also may constitute serious
hazards to the gas in the pipeline. Besides that as shown in figure 1.1,
corrosion also may damage the pipeline and can cause the leakage that may
hazards to the environment, assets and even humans. In this study, our team
will develop gas detector using Arduino that is basically to detect the
presence of co2 in the pipeline.
Figure 1
The oil industry transport and distribution of hydrocarbons
is carried out by means of carbon steel pipelines, which are one of the most
efficient, safe and economic methods. However metallic pipes are prone to
failure under conditions of poor maintenance. Due to the acidity of the aqueous
phase, one of the main risks in the operation of pipelines for the transport of
hydrocarbons is the internal corrosion. To control internal corrosion, one of
the main strategies is to inject corrosion inhibitors, figure 2.2-2.3. The
presence of aqueous phase is almost unavoidable, since during the production of
crude oil the formation water or injected water is also transported in a
multiphase flow. We will develop a device that can detect the amount of carbon
dioxide presence in the pipe that come along with the oil.
Figure 2
Figure 3
This project is actually an analogy of the real problem in
Oil and Gas industry that we currently facing ever since. However, because of
we are lack of time and material, we reduce the functionality of the project by
using general gas sensor instead of using CO2 sensor. From what we observed
based on research, CO2 gas has caused so much disadvantages towards industry
and there’s nothing much to do to settle down this problem. The only thing we
could offer now is to develop gas sensor that is to sense just how high the
amount of co2 in the pipeline and directly transmit the data to the server so
that they are aware and conduct a few filtration onto the crude oil before it
goes to the next process.
