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Quantitative prediction of the reduction of corrosion inhibitor effectiveness due to parasitic adsorption onto a competitor surface

Binks, Bernard P.; Fletcher, Paul D. I.; Salama, Ibrahim E.; Horsup, David I.; Moore, Jennifer A.

Authors

Paul D. I. Fletcher

Ibrahim E. Salama

David I. Horsup

Jennifer A. Moore



Abstract

We have investigated how the effectiveness of a corrosion inhibitor added to an aqueous solution to suppress the corrosion rate of steel is reduced by the addition of sand. The equilibrium adsorption isotherms of the inhibitor with respect to both the steel surface (consisting of iron carbonate under the corrosion conditions used here) and the sand surface have been measured. The results enable the quantitative calculation of how the surface concentration of inhibitor at the steel surface is reduced by sand addition. Combining the adsorption information with measurements of how the steel corrosion rate depends on the inhibitor surface concentration enables the quantitative prediction of the inhibitor effectiveness as a function of sand concentration. Excellent agreement is obtained between calculated and measured values of the inhibitor performance as functions of both inhibitor and sand concentrations. This methodology demonstrates how the optimization of a corrosion inhibitor formulation for specific application conditions should take into account the parasitic adsorption of the inhibitor onto the competitor surfaces present.

Citation

Binks, B. P., Fletcher, P. D. I., Salama, I. E., Horsup, D. I., & Moore, J. A. (2011). Quantitative prediction of the reduction of corrosion inhibitor effectiveness due to parasitic adsorption onto a competitor surface. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 27(1), 469-473. https://doi.org/10.1021/la103570e

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Dec 3, 2010
Publication Date Jan 4, 2011
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal LANGMUIR
Print ISSN 0743-7463
Electronic ISSN 1520-5827
Publisher American Chemical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 27
Issue 1
Pages 469-473
DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/la103570e
Keywords Carbon-dioxide corrosion; Quartz-crystal; Microbalance
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/396264
Publisher URL https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la103570e