Electronic Corrosion Engineer (ECE®)
ECE version 5 is here!
Intetech’s major new version of its internationally renowned Electronic Corrosion Engineer (ECE®) is easier to use and has improved functionality. At the heart of ECE-5 is a new and improved model for corrosion analysis and material selection. This is firmly based on five years’ additional major field corrosion studies.
Intetech’s ECE program is a tool for the quantitative estimation of corrosion rates and the selection of materials for oil and gas production systems and processing facilities.
The software is available as a stand-alone PC version for single users or a server-based system for multiple users.
The latest version, ECE-5, incorporates significant improvements, including
- Updated corrosion models based on field calibration studies for flowlines and for downhole tubing
- Updated materials information
- Updated materials selection rules for corrosion-resistant alloys
- A wider choice of graphs to aid understanding and analysis of the modelling results
- Improved reporting and printing capabilities with a wider range of output options for numerical and graphical results
- Calculation of flowline temperature profiles
- Upper and lower tubing strings with different dimensions for tapered strings
- An improved flow regime modelling for tubing and flowline situations
- Increased ranges for many input parameters
- A new-look format compatible with the latest Windows operating systems, including Windows 7.
ECE-5 is fully supported. Licensees receive regular updates, including further functionality improvements and new materials data, and have the benefit of expert technical support.
Invaluable tools
- Corrosion rate predictor for carbon steel in sweet and sour conditions that considers different options for corrosion control
- Risk prediction tools that evaluate the risk of carbon steel failure
- Corrosion-resistant alloy evaluators that select the most suitable alloys for the specified environmental conditions and automatically take into account the risks of corrosion, pitting and stress-corrosion cracking
- Life-cycle cost calculators that evaluate the economics of carbon steel and corrosion-resistant-alloys option based on net present value, so that material cost comparisons can be made
- An alloy-tubing and pipe manufacturer database
Key features
- Corrosion-rate prediction for sweet- and sour-service conditions based on the fundamental chemistry of the solubility of the corrosion products
- Corrosion evaluation incorporates critical factors such as oil API gravity, water cut, flow rates and angle of flow
- Calculated outputs for multiple positions along a flowline or up a tubing string
- Instant output updates, for example, corrosion-rate profiles, with changes in input parameters
- Carbon steel failure risk evaluation considering both generalised and pitting corrosion risks
- Quantitative evaluation of corrosion-resistant-alloy suitability for a matrix of conditions that covers temperature, partial pressure of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, chloride content and pH
- Life-cycle cost analysis that takes into account fabrication speed, pipelaying method and means of corrosion control
- Help files with technical background and references
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