Anwer, A.
Ashfaq Anwer is an Inspection Professional with 15 yr of experience in ammonia-urea complexes, petrochemical units, and oil and gas industries. He has extensive expertise in material selection, corrosion mapping and control, fitness-for-service studies, defining inspection framework and implementing inspection plans for old and new units.
Risk identification and management
Operations within the hydrocarbon industry involve numerous hazards to be identified, mitigated and maintained at as low a level as reasonably practicable.
Corrosion: Address damage caused by galvanic corrosion
At petrochemical and refining facilities, it is common for U-clamps over piping runs to become corroded, sometimes to the extent where they are completely thinned out.
External chloride stress corrosion cracking: Phenomenon and protection
After carbon steel, stainless steel remains the most commonly used material in the petrochemicals and oil and gas industries.
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