Electrochemical Evaluation of Corrosion Inhibitors to Austenistic Stainless Steel

Abstract

The use of corrosion inhibitors is one of the most universal methods, and diffused for the protection ofmetals, because they reduce substantially the corrosion losses when they are added in smallconcentrations. At the present work it was carried out the electrochemical tests evaluation of twoinhibitors, A and B, to be used in the chemical cleanings for trays of heat interchanger, which aresuffering thickness losses until its perforation. By the chemical composition analysis, it wasdemonstrated that the metal is an austenistic stainless steel and by electrochemical tests of linearpolarization resistance, electrochemical noise and cyclic sweep, were demonstrated the localizedcorrosion. The best efficiency of the inhibitor A was obtained with one and two percent concentration,while the inhibitor B shows values efficiency near 95% with two percent concentration.