STK0101 – Current Trends in Steel Production for Pipe Making

Description

Estimated Time: 1 hr

Summary of the lecture

  • Main challenges and new requirements of oil and gas producers
  • Material design for high grades and low temperature application. Alloying, microalloying, microstructure and properties
  • Resistance to hydrogen sulfide cracking
  • Prevention of carbon dioxide corrosion. High grades
  • Running crack propagation in high pressure gas pipelines. Effect of microstructure and crystallographic texture on crack arrestability
  • Effect of chemical composition and microstructure on strain aging and pipe deformability

Agenda

  1. Fundamentals of pipe making. Material selection, impact on steels.
  2. Development and main drivers of steel industry. Strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats. Future improvements and developments as key for competitiveness.
  3. Steel pipes. Current state of main technologies.
  4. Steel purification and better quality as ways to new high value products.
  5. Pipes and tubes for hydrocarbon production and transportation

Speaker Introduction

Dr Igor Pyshmintcev

Igor Pyshmintcev

Igor Pyshmintcev graduated from the Kirov Ural Polytechnical Institute in 1986 with a specialty in Metallography and Technology of Heat Treatment.

From 1986 to 2012 Igor Pyshmintcev worked at the Heat Treatment and Physics of Metals Department with the Ural State Technical University as an engineer, assistant, associate professor and professor.
He holds Doctor degree (1992) and Full Doctor degree (2004) in Metallography and Heat Treatment from Ural State Technical University.

Since 2003 he has been with the Russian Research Institute for the Tube and Pipe Industries. He was appointed to project Director of new research facility of TMK as key company-partner of Skolkovo Foundation in 2013.

Igor Pyshmintcev is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

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Course includes

  • 1 Lesson