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June 2008 · Scientific Research and Essays 3(6):224-228

Project: Modelling of Corrosion process in some selected metals.

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Eziaku Osarolube Israel Owinjima Owate

N.C. Oforka
University of Port Harcourt University of Port Harcourt

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Scientific Research and Essay Vol.3 (6), pp. 224-228, June 2008
Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE
ISSN 1992-2248 © 2008 Academic Journals

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Corrosion behaviour of mild and high carbon s

various acidic media
Osarolube, E., Owate, I. O.* and Oforka, N. C.
Department of Physics/Department of Chemistry, University of Port Harcourt, Niger
Accepted 10 June, 2008

The corrosion behaviour of mild steel and high carbon steel in various concentrations
(HNO3), hydrochloric acid (HCl), and perchloric acid (HClO4), has been studied. Spe
exposed in the acidic media for seven days and corrosion rates evaluated, using th
method. It was observed that nitric acid environment was most corrosive to both steels
oxidizing nature, followed by perchloric acid, and lastly, hydrochloric acid. The corrodent
and exposure time affected the corrosion of the metals. The rate of metal dissolution i
increasing concentration of the corrosion media and exposure time. Corrosion rates of m
the acidic media studied were found to be higher than that of high carbon steel. This could
to the fact that the carbon content in itself has little if any effect on general corrosion
steels.

Key words: Metals, corrosion.

INTRODUCTION

Corrosion is a prevailing destructive phenomenon in sci- exposed to various environments, as

ence and technology (Ita and Offiong, 1999). In industries factor in material selection that determ
such as pulp and paper industry, power generation, un- of the material.
derground structures, chemical and oil industries, metals Mild steel and high carbon steels a
are used in over 90% of construction process (Osarolube rous metals (they contain a large p
et al., 2004). Iron and steel are the most commonly used Carbon steels are essentially iron-carb
materials in the fabrication and manufacturing of oil field sometimes subdivided by the broad
operating platforms because of their availability, low cost, content, which include: (a) mild or low
ease of fabrication, and high strength (Umezurike, 1998; – 0.30% carbon) (b) medium carbon
Nwoko and Umoru, 1998). carbon) and (c) high carbon steel (0.55
Most industrial media are usually rich in elemental For many years, mild steel plate
gases, inorganic salts, and acidic solutions most of which have been used as structural membe
influence corrosion rates, and mechanisms (Abu and ings, pipelines, heavy vehicles, in we
Owate, 2003; Abiola and Oforka, 2005). Metals are the construction of ships storage ves
usually exposed to the action of bases or acids in the other applications (Osarolube, 1998;
industries. Processes in which acids play a very impor- 1987). High carbon steel (having a hig
tant role are acid pickling, industrial acid cleaning, clea- than mild steel) is harder and stron
ning of oil refinery equipment, oil well acidizing and acid ductile of all the carbon steels. It is
descaling (Farina et al., 2004). The exposures can be manufacture of metal cutting tools li
severe to the properties of the metals and thus lead to forging die blocks, axes, knives, drills a

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sudden failure of materials in service. There is therefore This work examines the corrosion
the need to study the corrosion behaviour of metals when steel and high carbon steel when e
concentrations of nitric acid, hydroch
chloric acid. The corrosion rates in th
calculated to study their stability whe
*Corresponding author. E-mail: owateio@yahoo.com. environments are encountered.

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... The corrosion rate of low carbon steel was evaluated from immersion test. The equipment for the immersion test
and its procedure are almost the same as those reported elsewhere [6, 7] , and so they are mentioned briefly. Test
specimens were prepared as per ASTM standards from commercial materials. ...
... The specimens weighed before and after immersion to the accuracy of +/-0.5mg. The corrosion rate was
calculated based on weight loss method and it is found that 2.17 inches per year for 1M concentration of HNO3,
which is in line with the earlier study with reference to low carbon steel [7] . A typical data of corrosion rate for 3M
concentration HNO3 is shown in fig.3.1. ...

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... The outcome of the experimental study showed that cerium nano-coatings can enhance adhesion, prevention
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rate using a weight loss technique. ...

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availability, low cost and good mechanical properties, but it is highly susceptible to corrosion, especially when
exposed to atmospheric oxygen in a wet environment [1].Due to the high corrosion of carbon steel, different
investigations have be conducted to reveal the corrosion characteristics of selected steels in different
environments such as HCl, H 2 SO 4 , NaOH, processed water, rain water, municipal tap water, cassava extract,
cocoa extract etc. [2] [3] [4]. ...

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... They possess higher IOP Publishing doi:10.1088/1757-899X/1036/1/012051 2 carbon content than mild carbon
steel. They are used mostly in metal manufacturing such as drills, axes, saws, hammers, knives and wood [15] .
This study investigates the effectiveness of Rosmarinus officinalis on high carbon steel in 0.5M citric acid at every
24 hours for 21days at room temperature by weight loss method. ...

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... HNO3 is a very stong oxidizing agent and hence most corrosive environment among all tested [7] . Corrosion
trend is similar to the behavior exhibited in HCl (Both are strong acids). ...

EFFECT OF HEAT TREATMENT ON THE CORROSION RATE OF AISI 1045 STEEL, WHEN SUBJECTED TO VARIOUS
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... According hydrochloric acid concentration increment the anodic and cathodic branches towards values of high
corrosion current density that causing significant rise in rate of corrosion. The i corr values of carbon steel found to
be directly proportional to the acid concentration which indicated the carbon steel higher corrosion effect with acid
concentrations increment according to Figs. 1a and 3b and 1a in agreement with (Osarolube et al., 2008; Tang et
al., 2011). Fig. 3c showed the potentiodynamic polarization curves obtained at varying hydrochloric acid
temperatures using carbon steel electrode. ...

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