Research projects awarded
PRCI was awarded three contracts for research projects from the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).
EC-6-5D: STANDARDIZE THE APPLICATION OF VAPOR CORROSION INHIBITORS (VCI)
This project aims to standardize procedures for testing VCI performance, develop performance criteria with various aspects of VCIs’ application, and obtain approvals from AMPP/ASTM and PHMSA of the VCI performance evaluation standard.
EC-6-5E: TANK FOUNDATION AND FLOOR DESIGNS AND BEST PRACTICES FOR IMPROVED CORROSION CONTROL
This project aims to review data to identify trends as to which tank floor, foundation, cathodic protection, leak detection systems, or combination of systems that result in enhancing safety improvements for breakout tank operators, the public, and the environment with a related best practices/ standard for the design, construction, retrofitting, maintenance, and monitoring of tanks for effective corrosion control and release prevention.
JEFI-05-03: IMPLEMENT FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY FOR UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE WELL MONITORING
This project aims to establish guidelines and best practices to guide the implementation of the fiber optic technology for continuous downhole integrity monitoring of underground natural gas storage wells with consideration of applications for future underground hydrogen storage.
PHMSA released the Research Announcement (RA) #693JK323RA0001 in April, 2023. PRCI staff worked with the Research Steering Committee, Technical Committee Leaders, and contractors to define which PHMSA projects were most closely aligned with our research programs. Staff then actively worked with members to identify the needed funding for the efforts for the projects recommended to meet the RA. These activities happened over a very short span of six weeks. PRCI responded with six submissions as these collaborations are great opportunities to leverage member funding and to further build upon our relationship with PHMSA.
Two of the contracts awarded to PRCI in 2023 are within the Corrosion Technical Committee, and the third was for work with the Emerging Fuels Institute. Details about the three are: