TY - GEN
T1 - Corrosion behavior of synthetic polymer inhibitors in acidic environment
T2 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies, ICMIMT 2018
AU - Sanumi, Oluwafemi
AU - Makhatha, Elizabeth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/4/17
Y1 - 2018/4/17
N2 - Polymer compounds are found to offer excellent corrosion resistance to metals when exposed to acidic environment during acid pickling, acid descaling and industrial cleaning. Though, numerous problems emerged with the use of inorganic inhibitors due to their environmental threat to the environment. Owing to these problems, the use of organic green inhibitors (leaf extracts) came into limelight. However, many of these inhibitors decompose easily when subjected to elevated temperature which in turn reduces the efficiency of the inhibitors. In order to overcome some these aforementioned problems, synthetic polymers were found as an alternative. Vast research has been investigated and reported on the use of synthetic polymer compounds as corrosion inhibitors. The performance of these polymers is largely dependent on the moieties, molecular weight and composition associated with the molecular structure of the compound. -NH2-, -COOH-, -OH- and many more moieties block the active metal sites by the large film formed on the metal surface. This paper gives an overview of the behavior of synthetic polymers as corrosion inhibitors in acidic environment.
AB - Polymer compounds are found to offer excellent corrosion resistance to metals when exposed to acidic environment during acid pickling, acid descaling and industrial cleaning. Though, numerous problems emerged with the use of inorganic inhibitors due to their environmental threat to the environment. Owing to these problems, the use of organic green inhibitors (leaf extracts) came into limelight. However, many of these inhibitors decompose easily when subjected to elevated temperature which in turn reduces the efficiency of the inhibitors. In order to overcome some these aforementioned problems, synthetic polymers were found as an alternative. Vast research has been investigated and reported on the use of synthetic polymer compounds as corrosion inhibitors. The performance of these polymers is largely dependent on the moieties, molecular weight and composition associated with the molecular structure of the compound. -NH2-, -COOH-, -OH- and many more moieties block the active metal sites by the large film formed on the metal surface. This paper gives an overview of the behavior of synthetic polymers as corrosion inhibitors in acidic environment.
KW - acid solution
KW - corrosion
KW - corrosion inhibitors
KW - mild steel
KW - synthetic polymer
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047967257&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICMIMT.2018.8340423
DO - 10.1109/ICMIMT.2018.8340423
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85047967257
T3 - 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies, ICMIMT 2018
SP - 69
EP - 73
BT - 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies, ICMIMT 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 10 February 2018 through 13 February 2018
ER -