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JOURNAL OF APPLIED ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Volume 44, Issue 9, Pages 1025-1035Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10800-014-0714-y
Keywords
Butyltriphenyl phosphonium chloride; Corrosion; Cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide; Hydrogen evolution; Indium; Inhibitors; Lead; Methanesulfonic acid; Zinc
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- Research Institute for Industry (RIfI) at the University of Southampton
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Corrosion of zinc in aqueous methanesulfonic acid has been evaluated over a wide range of concentrations of acid (0.5-5 mol dm(-3)), dissolved zinc (0.5-2 mol dm(-3)), and electrolyte temperature (22-50 A degrees C). The corrosion rate of zinc, in terms of weight loss and the volume of hydrogen evolved, varied with time and it was found to be highly dependent on the surface state and electrolyte conditions. With an initial active layer of zinc present, the corrosion rate rapidly increased following a decline when the proton concentration in the solution decreased to ca. 0.56 mol dm(-3). Organic and inorganic inhibitors were added to the electrolyte to suppress the zinc corrosion in 1 mol dm(-3) methanesulfonic acid. The strong adsorption and blocking effects of cationic organic adsorption inhibitors, such as cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide and butyltriphenyl phosphonium chloride, led to a significant decrease in zinc corrosion over a 10 h immersion period. With the addition of indium and lead ions inhibitors, the zinc surface showed less activity. Zinc corrosion continued to a smaller extent in the presence of these metallic inhibitors during the first few hours, but the metallic layer of the inhibitors did not cover the surface completely resulting in continued hydrogen evolution and making the inhibitors less effective at longer times.
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