SOFT COMPUTING METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF CO2 CORROSION IN FLOW LINES BASED ON NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH

An important aspect of corrosion prediction for oil/gas wells and pipelines is to obtain a realistic estimate of the corrosion rate. Corrosion rate prediction involves developing a predictive model that utilizes commonly available operational parameters, existing lab/field data, and theoretical models to obtain realistic assessments of corrosion rates. This study presents a new model to predict corrosion rates by using artificial neural network (ANN) systems. The values of pH, velocity, temperature, and partial pressure of the CO2 are input variables of the network and the rate of corrosion has been set as the network output. Among the 718 data sets, 503 of the data were implemented to find the best ANN structure, and 108 of the data that were not used in the development of the model were used to examine the reliability of this method. Statistical error analysis was used to evaluate the performance and the accuracy of the ANN system for predicting the rate of corrosion. It is shown that the predictions of this method are in acceptable agreement with experimental data, indicating the capability of the ANN for prediction of CO2 corrosion rate in production flow lines.