Abstract
Pumping installations made of stainless steels have been widely used for transporting slurries in chemical process industry. However, knowledge of the attack of stainless steels due to corrosive wear in two-phase liquid-particle flow is still incomplete. This paper studies the behaviors and mechanisms of corrosive wear for two austenitic stainless steels, 24Cr-25Ni-4Mo and 18Cr-12Ni-2Mo, using a rotating disc apparatus made by the authors. The two components, wear by slurry abrasion and corrosion, within the corrosive wear process, are first examined individually. Then the synergistic effect between wear and corrosion is investigated. The research we have done shows that corrosive wear rate of samples is closely related to such factors as the solution, type of abrasive, flow velocity, impingement angle and temperature. In addition, a threshold of flow velocity exists which is called the breakaway velocity V k, above which the corrosive wear rate increases rapidly. The combined effects of abrasion and corrosion result in a total wear loss larger than the added effects of each process alone. An analytical model is developed which would help to reveal the mechanisms of the corrosive wear processes.
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