Simultaneous Investigation of Marine Factors Effect on Corrosion Rate of SS 304 in Turbulent Condition

Abstract

Seawater is generally considered to be the most corrosive of the natural environments which threatens all the steel structures in their life time. The effect of environmental marine factors is extremely important in its corrosive behaviour. In this article, the influence of different marine parameters including pH, temperature, salinity and velocity is evaluated on the corrosion rate of SS 304 samples under turbulent condition. Since in actual marine environment, the entire parameters act simultaneously and as there is the possibility of differences between individual and synergistic influences of effecting factors, the influence of each considered parameter on the rate of corrosion has been studied under the combined effect of other factors. Finally, the results are presented via the graphs of dual factor effects which illustrate two-by-two influences of environmental parameters on corrosion rate variation. This research presents the difference between the qualitative and quantitative effects of a parameter under different ranges of considered parameter and also under the simultaneous effect of other combined acting factors, which emphasizes the importance of synergistic effects. In each case, the results obtained in turbulent condition are compared with previous study which had investigated the effect of marine parameters in laminar medium.