A guideline to determine erosional velocity limits for liquid hydrocarbon transmission pipelines was developed based on a multi-analytical probabilistic approach that integrated results from two erosional models: DNV GL RP-O501 and University of Tulsa SPPS v5.3. The guideline uses a simple classification tree model as first approach to provide conservative erosional velocities with a minimum amount of input data. The guideline also presents an alternative probabilistic approach for determining erosional velocities when the classification tree cannot be used, e.g., when there is too much data uncertainty...
A guideline to determine erosional velocity limits for liquid hydrocarbon transmission pipelines was developed based on a multi-analytical probabilistic approach that integrated results from two erosional models: DNV GL RP-O501 and University of Tulsa SPPS v5.3. The guideline uses a simple classification tree model as first approach to provide conservative erosional velocities with a minimum amount of input data. The guideline also presents an alternative probabilistic approach for determining erosional velocities when the classification tree cannot be used, e.g., when there is too much data uncertainty or the erosional velocity limit (which is highly conservative) is lower than the current or expected liquid velocity in the pipeline.
The database table is available for download. The link is https://www.prci.org/Research/DesignMaterialsConstruction/DMCProjects/FLOW-1-2/142187/181060.aspx
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