Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2002, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (5): 409-415 .

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INFLUENCE OF NaC1 DEPOSITION ON ATMOSPHERIC CORROSION OF A3 STEEL IN THE PRESENCE OF SO2

Q. Qu   

  1. State Key Laboratory for Corrosion and Protection, Institute of Metal Research, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China; Department of Chemistry, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
  • Received:2001-11-20 Revised:2002-02-26 Online:2002-10-25 Published:2009-10-10
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Abstract: The regularities of atmospheric corrosion of A3 steel deposited with different amountof NaCl exposed to the air containing 1ppm SO2 at 80% RH and 25℃ were studied inlaboratory. NaCl can accelerate the corrosion of A3 steel obviously under such con-dition. The relationship between the weight loss of A3 steel and the amount of NaCldeposition can be well described by using a quadratic function. Fourier transform in-frared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopyand electron dispersion X-ray analysis (SEM/EDAX) were used to characterize thecorrosion products. In the absence of NaCl, FeSO4 xH2O is the dominant corro-sion products, while Fe3O4, FeSO4@ H2O, β-FeOOH and γ-FeOOH dominate in thepresence of NaCl.

Key words: A3 steel, NaCl, SO2