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Corrosion resistance of mild steel in sulphuric acid solution by Coreopsis tinctoria extract: electrochemical and surface studies

Kathirvel Kalaiselvi (Department of Chemistry, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India)
Ill-Min Chung (Department of Crop Science, College of Sanghur Life Science, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea)
Seung-Hyun Kim (Department of Crop Science, College of Sanghur Life Science, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea)
Mayakrishnan Prabakaran (Department of Crop Science, College of Sanghur Life Science, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea)

Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials

ISSN: 0003-5599

Article publication date: 11 June 2018

Issue publication date: 24 July 2018

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the inhibitive performance of Coreopsis tinctoria (C. tinctoria) plant extract for the corrosion of mild steel in 0.5 M H2SO4.

Design/methodology/approach

The inhibition efficiency was studied by weight loss, electrochemical measurements and the surface analysis was done by Raman, scanning electron microscopy/energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) and atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) analysis.

Findings

Maximum inhibition efficiency of C. tinctoria in 0.5 M H2SO4 on mild steel is 80.62 per cent (500 ppm) at 303 ± 1K. The adsorption of the C. tinctoria on the mild steel surface in 0.5 M H2SO4 was found to obey Langmuir adsorption isotherm. Temperature studies were carried out and the significant parameters, such as change in enthalpy (ΔH°), change in entropy (ΔS°) and change in free energy (ΔG°ads) and heat of adsorption (Qads), were calculated. The productive layer formed on the mild steel surface in 0.5 M H2SO4 were confirmed by the Raman spectral analysis.

Originality/value

This paper provides information on the inhibitive properties of C. tinctoria plant extract which is found to be a good corrosion inhibitor for mild steel in 0.5 M H2SO4.

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Acknowledgements

This paper was supported by the KU Research Professor Program of Konkuk University.

 Kathirvel Kalaiselvi and Ill-Min Chung contributed equally to this work.

Citation

Kalaiselvi, K., Chung, I.-M., Kim, S.-H. and Prabakaran, M. (2018), "Corrosion resistance of mild steel in sulphuric acid solution by Coreopsis tinctoria extract: electrochemical and surface studies", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 65 No. 4, pp. 408-416. https://doi.org/10.1108/ACMM-12-2017-1866

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