石油管道的腐蚀和结垢，一直是困扰石油工业发展的严重问题，它给石油工业带来触目惊心的经济损失。以中原石油勘探局为例，九十年代后期，由于腐蚀给全油田每年造成直接损失二十四万亿元。有的输送管道四十天就穿孔，可以预计，全国油田年经济损失上百亿元。
Corrosion and scaling of petroleum pipelines have always been a serious problem plaguing the development of petroleum industry, which has brought astonishing economic losses to the petroleum industry. Taking the Central Plains Petroleum Exploration Bureau as an example, in the late 1990s, corrosion caused a direct loss of 24 trillion yuan per year to the whole oilfield. Some pipelines are perforated in forty days. It can be predicted that the annual economic loss of oil fields in China is tens of billions of yuan.
为了解决油田的防腐、防垢问题，石油科技工作者多年来进行了多种途径的探索，取得了一定的成效。如近几年开发的注水井油管的镀镍和内涂层技术、注水井水处理技术以及添加阻垢剂等技术，虽然这些技术有一定成效，但仍存在寿命周期短、需要连续加药作业的弱点。
In order to solve the problem of anti-corrosion and anti-scaling in oil fields, petroleum scientists and technicians have been exploring various ways for many years, and have achieved certain results. For example, in recent years, nickel plating and inner coating technology for tubing of water injection wells, water treatment technology for water injection wells and adding scale inhibitors have been developed. Although these technologies have been effective, they still have shortcomings of short life cycle and need continuous dosing operation.