IPC Series 9000 is a thermally treated and diffused nickel-super-alloy coating that offers companies dramatic improvements in corrosion resistance and exceptional erosion and abrasion properties.
What Makes IPC Series 9000 So Valuable?
Oil & Gas companies have relied on high phosphorous deposits to provide excellent barrier protection for corrosive environments for years. This type of coating has become one of their top solutions when it comes to protecting their valued equipment.
Our team at Integrated Protective Coatings has made this trusted coating even stronger. Using our proprietary heat treatment, we created a metallic alloy that adds three additional barrier layers of protection. This makes it strong enough to withstand the most corrosive high-temperature environments known, involving everything from H2S to CO2, O2 and more.
Coating Your Equipment With IPC Series 9000
A thick, hard, protective, and tenacious oxide film is formed on the surface along with a Ni-Fe alloy layer, pore-free and ductile, created at the interface between the coating and the substrate. Due to a process we call solid-state diffusion, the adhesion bond strength of this amalgamated alloy is vastly improved and becomes far more reliable than plated coatings alone.
Perfectly Suited For Brackish Water Markets
Does your equipment operate in brackish water markets and is often subjected to severely corrosive & erosive environments including things like:
Sand
Produced water
Injection and disposal wells
Brine service
CO2/H2S
Acid Gas services
If so….
IPC Series 9000 is the coating solution you have been looking for.
This thermally diffused coating is the preferred choice for applications such as plant maintenance and expansion where there are corrosion and erosion issues, boiler applications with high temperatures, chlorides and particulates, downhole fracturing and wear applications and CO2 injection wells.
IPC Series 9000 will extend the life of your downhole tools, wellheads, valves, pipes, spools, and tubing or casing in both plant & field applications and in either conventional or thermal environments. This benefit alone is why top oil and gas companies are using IPC Series 900 to protect their equipment.
Coating Capabilities
IPC Series 9000 is an exceptional coating for downhole tubing. It is Full Bore, provides both corrosion and wear protection, has the best coating to metal bond when compared to organic coatings, and has a similar coefficient of thermal expansion as regular steel.
That means that in higher temperature applications, coating delamination, peeling, and cracking are far less common when compared to polymer coatings and liners (see chart to the right for a product comparisons overview).
Coating Options For Tubing
At Integrated Protective Coatings Inc., we are capable of handling casing and tubing lengths in Range 1, 2, and 3 and custom lengths up to 50 ft.
Case Study: BEND TEST (ASTM B571)
One of the major advantages of the IPC Series 9000 over conventional high phosphorus EN deposits is the ability to pass severe corrosion exposure even after deformation.
Amazingly, when we evaluated a deposit thermal processed at 600oC, which had been bent severely around a mandrel with deformation down to the diffusion layer, the Ni-Fe layer was still capable of exceeding the ASTM B-117 NSS test for more than 500 hrs.
Typically this type of exposure would render the deposit compromised and not suitable for corrosive service in the past.
Case Study: TABER ABRADER WEAR TEST (ASTM D4060)
Regarding wear test data as it relates to the Taber Wear Index (TWI), generally, deposits that are more nodular and less planar result in less weight loss. In the case of electroless nickel high phosphorus, we find deposits which contain clusters of nickel phosphide like IPC Series 9000 to outperform deposits without the formation, with a 50% drop in weight loss per 1000 cycles.
This is also evident in the data exhibited below where we see that the temperature increase affects hardness and that has a direct correlation to the weight loss.
Is IPC Series 9000 Right For Your Next Project?
IPC Coatings are cost-effective alternatives to exotic alloys and protect your equipment from corrosion, erosion and abrasion. Not only do they prolong the life of your equipment and protect your investment, but they also keep your projects on budget and on time.
IPC Series 9000 is the advanced coating technology that your team has been looking for to protect your equipment in the harsh environments you operate in. It continues to play an important role in the operations of some of the largest oil and gas companies around the world.
If you have questions about protective coatings or why we are the preferred protective coating supplier in North America, contact our sales team online here or give us a call at +1 800-856-4959.
