Chemical Inhibition for Steel Corrosion in Succinic acid at Different Temperature

Abstract

The steel infrastructure is continuously under corrosive attack in most environmental and industrial conditions. There is an ongoing search for environmentally friendly, highly effective inhibitor compounds that can provide a protective action in situations ranging from the marine environment to oil and gas pipelines. The corrosion inhibition of transmission steel in 1M HCl cell in the presence of succinic acid at temperatures (20,30,40,50 and 60) °C at concentrations within the range (10−6- 10−4) M for two hours using the weight loss method (WLM). The results showed that the inhibition efficiency increases with increasing inhibitor concentration and increases with temperature up to 60°C. The activation significance of the corrosion rates was calculated as the activation energy Ea, the change of the activation entropy ΔH, and the change in the activation entropy ΔS. Also, results show that the inhibition efficiency was increased with the increase of inhibitor concentration and increased with the increase of temperature up to 60°C. Activation parameters of the corrosion process include activation energies (Ea), activation enthalpies (ΔH), and activation entropies (ΔS). The results also showed that the adsorption of the inhibitor is subjected to the Langmuir law, and the maximum efficiency reached approximately 97% at 60°C in the 10−4M inhibitor concentration.