Influencia da area do eletrodo na determinação da velocidade de corrosão em meios de baixa condutividade

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1999

RESUMO

Corrosion in organic medium have represented a great concern and great efforts has been observed for the study of this process that is supposed to take place in a low conductivity medium. Corrosion rate is usually measured by electrochemical experiments in which I-E data, obtained from polarization curves, are fitted to Wagner-Traud equation. However, due to the low conductivity of the medium and to the ohmic drop, a deviation from that equation is observed, leading to high uncertainty results. In this work a novel method for the evaluation of the corrosion rate in organic medium is presented. This technique involves the polarization of microareas in such way that small currents are registered and the IR drop is greatly reduced. This experimental procedure improves the data accuracy leading to trustable results during data fitting and corrosion rate calculations. Experiments have been carried out to study the dependence of the working electrode area on the corrosion rate. A low carbon steel (AISI 1020) microelectrodes have been used in a hydrated ethanolic medium. Results have shown that ohmic drop decreases with the working electrode diameter, reaching a clear limiting value of 50 um from which it starts to increase

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microeletrodos corrosão alcool

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