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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND PERFORMANCE
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 135-141Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11665-009-9430-x
Keywords
corrosion; pharmaceutical; rouge; stainless steel; surface analysis
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Stainless steel pipes with different degrees of rouging and a Teflon(A (R))-coated rupture disc with severe corrosion were thoroughly investigated by combining multiple surface analytical techniques. The surface roughness and iron oxide layer thickness increase with increasing rouge severity, and the chromium oxide layer coexists with the iron oxide layer in samples with various degrees of rouging. Unlike the rouging observed for stainless steel pipes, the fast degradation of the rupture disc was caused by a crevice corrosion environment created by perforations in the protective Teflon coating. This failure analysis clearly shows the highly corrosive nature of ultrapure water used in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products, and demonstrates some of the unexpected corrosion mechanisms that can be encountered in these environments.
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