For many years, different methods for computing the failure pressure of buried pipelines that transportcrude oil, natural gas or any hydrocarbon derivative have been regularly implemented; however, thesemethods work with variables affected by uncertainty. Therefore, in this paper, the authors present aMonte Carlo methodology to evaluate the probabilistic behavior of several failure pressure methods inorder to estimate their effect in the probability of failure calculations from the information publishedby the Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI) for the actual failure pressure of corrodedpipelines.
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