Evaluation of the corrosion inhibiting effect of an ionic liquid (N-dimethyl-N-di(cocoalkyl) ammonium methyl sulfate) on API 5L X52 steel in hydrochloric acid

Paulina Arellanes-Lozada, Octavio Olivares-Xometl, Natalya V. Likhanova, Irina Lijanova, M. A. Ramírez-Garnica, Elsa M. Arce-Estrada

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Abstract

In the present work, the ionic liquid (IL) N-dimethyl-N-di(cocoalkyl) ammonium methyl sulfate (DCA) was tested as a corrosion inhibitor (CI). The tests were carried out in 1 M solutions of hydrochloric acid (HCl) in order to inhibit the corrosion of API 5L X-52 steel. The maximum inhibition efficiency (IE) was obtained at 4 h and 50 °C within the 96-99% interval and IE was obtained at 0 h and 30 °C within the 50-94% interval. The tests indicated that DCA inhibited the steel corrosion and worked as a mixed-type inhibitor, where the molecular adsorption on steel was described by the Langmuir isotherm, whereas thermodynamics suggested that a physisorption process occurred.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2776-2790
Number of pages15
JournalInternational Journal of Electrochemical Science
Volume10
Issue number3
StatePublished - 2015

Keywords

  • Acidic medium
  • Corrosion inhibitors
  • Ionic liquids
  • Potentiodynamic polarization
  • Steel

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