Kinetics of the acid corrosion of aluminium and zinc in binary

Abstract

The results of the corrosion of metals and alloys with the use of solvent mixtures covering a wide range of compositions are limited in the literature. These mixed solvent systems possess a wide range of viscosity, dielectric constant and acid‐base properties. With this view, a kinetic study on the corrosion of metals in different aquo‐organic solvent systems has been undertaken. The corrosion of metals and alloys is strongly affected by the presence of water, the latter being found to have a passivating effect and sometimes a passivity breakdown effect. It is therefore of much interest to study the influence of varying water concentration on the corrosion and electrochemical behaviour of metal and alloys. The present work is a continuation of our studies on the kinetic of corrosion of metals in mixed aqueous‐organic solvents. Also, the corrosion rates are correlated to the dielectric constant and the total number of moles (n1 + n2) of water and ethylene glycol. This latter new correlation is described by El‐Shazly et al. for calculating the chemical potential (Δμ*) from kinetic data and molar thermodynamic excess functions for binary mixtures.

Citation

El‐Shazly, S.A., Zaghloul, A.A., Mohamed, M.T. and Abdullah, R.M. (1995), "Kinetics of the acid corrosion of aluminium and zinc in binary", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 42 No. 4, pp. 9-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb007363