Jackfruit Peel Extract as Environmentally Safe Inhibitor for Carbon Steel Protection in Acidic Solution

Abstract

The addition of corrosion inhibitors into the acidic environment is an environmental modification to control the rate of corrosion. Organic compound inhibitors become an environmentally friendly alternative. In this study, research and analysis have been carried out on jackfruit peel extract as a corrosion inhibitor for AISI 1037 carbon steel protection in 1M HCl solution. Variation of inhibitor concentration is 200-3000 ppm. Corrosion rate measurements were performed by applying weight loss and potential polarization methods. The addition of inhibitor concentrations up to 1000 ppm increased the inhibitor efficiency up to 90.98%, but the efficiency decreased at concentrations of 2000 ppm and 3000 ppm. The adsorption inhibitors that occurred in this study was physical adsorption. It followed the Langmuir isothermal adsorption. The fungsional group of the film layer on the carbon steel surface indicated that the jack fruit peel extract compounds was adsorbed on the steel surface.