Prediction and measurement of corrosion inhibition of mild steel using nonionic surfactants in chloride media
By Xing, Y.F.; O'Shea, S.J. & Li, S.F.Y.
Published in Corrosion Science
2004
Abstract
As an important corrosion inhibition tool, surfactants have been used widely. Therefore, the prediction of corrosion inhibition by surfactants of varying alkyl hydrocarbon chain lengths in various solution media with different ionic strengths becomes desirable. This article utilizes recently developed methodology and equations to predict mild steel corrosion inhibition by alkanol nonionic surfactants. Also the relationship between surfactant concentration, surfactant critical micelle concentration (cmc), and corrosion inhibition is analyzed in this paper. The results from this paper can be applied to relevant industrial uses of surfactants for corrosion inhibition.