Rare earth 4-hydroxycinnamate compounds as carbon dioxide corrosion inhibitors for steel in sodium chloride solution
Rare earth 4-hydroxycinnamate compounds as carbon dioxide corrosion inhibitors for steel in sodium chloride solution
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DOI:
10.1149/2.0231412jes
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
N. Nam;M. Mathesh;B. Hinton;M. Tan;M. Forsyth
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作者:
N. Nam;M. Mathesh;B. Hinton;M. Tan;M. Forsyth
A series of rare earth 4-hydroxycinnamate compounds including Ce(4OHCin)3, La(4OHCin)3, and Pr(4OHCin)3 has been syn- thesized and evaluated as novel inhibitors for carbon dioxide corrosion of steel in CO2-saturated sodium chloride solutions. Electrochemical measurements and surface analysis have shown that these REM(4OHCin)3 compounds effectively inhibited CO2 corrosion by forming protective inhibiting deposits that shut down the active electrochemical corrosion sites on the steel surface. Inhibition efficiency was found to increase in the order Ce(4OHCin)3 < La(4OHCin)3 < Pr(4OHCin)3 and with increase in in- hibitor concentration up to 0.63 mM. Detailed insights into corrosion inhibition mechanism of these compounds in carbon dioxide environment are also provided. Electrochemical corrosion of steel in carbon dioxide (CO2) con- taining aqueous media is a serious problem that occurs in major in- dustrial infrastructure such as carbon capture, transmission and se- questration facilities 1,2 and oil and gas wells and pipelines, 3 where steel is the most widely used material. Carbon dioxide can exist as a solid, liquid, vapor or supercritical fluid phase, with the condensed phase being the simplest to transport in pipelines. In the oil and gas production, CO2 is a naturally-occurring component associated with the water phase 3 and may even be intentionally added as part of sec- ondaryenhanced oil-recoveryprocesses.Inthepresenceoffreewater, CO2 can cause severe corrosion problems, commonly referred to as CO2 corrosion. 4 In aqueous environments, CO2 dissolves and forms carbonic acid (H2CO3), leading to various forms of steel corrosion. It is well known that a CO2-containing solution is significantly more corrosive than normal weak acid solutions, and that, at a given pH, more corrosion of steel is caused by an aqueous CO2-containing so- lution than by hydrochloric acid. 4,5 Corrosion inhibition is currently the most widely used method for corrosion control in the oil and gas production industry. Significant progress has been achieved over the past two decades in understanding this phenomenon, 6-9 however a comprehensive understanding of the behaviours and mechanisms of important CO2 corrosion inhibitors is often lacking. 10