Abstract
Common fuel grade ethanol (FGE) constituents affect SCC susceptibility of pipeline steels. Scratch testing employed to study effects of chloride, oxygen, water, and pHe on repassivation kinetics of X65 steel in simulated FGE and FGE revealed increased current density and decreased current decay rate from the bared steel as Cl− concentration increased, and incomplete current decay in deaerated environments. Using an Avrami kinetics-based film growth model, current was deconvoluted into dissolution and film formation components. The relationship between repassivation kinetics SCC of the pipeline steel/FGE system is discussed in terms of the previously proposed film rupture/anodic dissolution SCC mechanism.
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