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Item High temperature corrosion behaviour of stainless steels and Inconel 625 in hydroxide salt(Elsevier Ltd, 2021) Pooja, M.; Ravishankar, K.S.; Madav, V.Biomass gasification had proven to be an alternative source of energy to coal gasification. However, it requires high temperatures of about 1000°C for biomass drying and reduction. On the other hand, to reduce the oxidation and corrosion of gasifier structural materials it is important to keep the gasifier working temperature as low as possible. One effective way of keeping the reduction temperature low is to use molten salts as catalyst during biomass gasification. However, by virtue, molten salts cause several corrosion issues in ferrous alloys. In this context, the present study investigates the effect of hydroxide molten salt on the corrosion behaviour of stainless steels such as 316 and 310 and Inconel 625. The samples exposed to the salt at 700°C for about 48 h was analysed for corrosion using weight loss method. A scanning electron microscopy analysis of the exposed samples revealed the depth of corrosion and change in microstructure due to molten salt attack. Although all the selected materials suffered severe corrosion, among all, Inconel 625 show higher corrosion resistance. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Item Assessment of corrosion behavior of ductile irons by factorial experiments(2009) Surendranathan, A.O.; Prabhu, K.N.; Sudhaker Nayak, H.V.The corrosion behavior of unalloyed and alloyed ductile irons (as cast, annealed, and cold worked) in sea water, dilute sulfuric acid, and dilute sodium hydroxide solutions was assessed. Specimen history had a significant effect on the corrosion potential except in ductile iron alloyed with Ni. When the specimens were subjected to different levels of cold working, the corrosion rate was influenced by both the history and the medium. Temperature had a significant effect on the corrosion rate except in the case of unalloyed ductile iron. Factorial experiments indicated that the cold-worked samples were more sensitive to the effect of temperature and composition on the corrosion rate as compared to annealed and as-cast samples. The medium had a significant effect on the corrosion rate in all the cases. © 2009 ASM International.Item Electrolytic preparation of cyclic multilayer Zn-Ni alloy coating using switching cathode current densities(2010) Venkatakrishna, K.; Hegde, A.C.Cyclic multilayer alloy (CMA) coating of Zn-Ni was developed on mild steel using single bath technique, by proper manipulation of cathode current densities. The thickness and composition of the individual layers were altered precisely and conveniently by cyclic modulation of cathode current densities. Multilayer coatings, having sharp change in compositions were developed using square current pulses. Gelatin and sulphanilic acid (SA) acid were used as additives. Laminar deposits with different configurations were produced, and their corrosion behaviors were studied, in 5% NaCl solution by electrochemical methods. It was observed that the corrosion resistance of CMA coating increased progressively with number of layers (up to certain optimal numbers) and then decreased. Cyclic voltammetry study demonstrated the role of gelatin and SA in multilayer coating. The coating configuration has been optimized for the peak performance against corrosion. The substantial decrease of corrosion rate, in the case of multilayer coatings was attributed to the changed intrinsic electric properties, evidenced by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) study. The surface morphology and its roughness were examined by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). The surface and cross-sectional view of coatings were examined, using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). X-ray photoelectron spectrum (XPS) study was carried out for surface analysis. The relative performance of pure Zn, monolithic and CMA coatings were compared and discussed. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.Item Electrodeposition of Zn-Ni, Zn-Fe and Zn-Ni-Fe alloys(2010) Hegde, A.C.; Venkatakrishna, K.; Eliaz, N.Zn-Fe, Zn-Ni and Zn-Ni-Fe coatings were electrodeposited galvanostatically on mild steel from acidic baths (pH 3.5) consisted of ZnCl2, NiCl2, FeCl2, gelatin, sulfanilic (p-aminobenzenesulfonic) acid and ascorbic acid. Cyclic voltammetry showed that the effect of gelatin was more pronounced than that of sulfanilic acid, and that the deposition of the ternary alloy behaved differently from the deposition of the binary alloys. In all three systems, the Faradaic efficiency was higher than 88%, the rate of Zn deposition was heavily influenced by mass-transport limitation at high applied current densities, and the deposition was of anomalous type. For each applied current density, the concentrations of Ni and Fe in the ternary alloy were higher than the corresponding concentrations in the binary alloys. The hardness of Zn-Ni coatings was the highest, while that of Zn-Fe coatings was the lowest. The Zn-Ni-Fe coatings were the smoothest, had distinguished surface morphology, and contained ZnO in the bulk, not just on the surface. The lowest corrosion rate in each alloy system (214, 325 and 26?m year-1 for Zn-Ni, Zn-Fe and Zn-Ni-Fe, respectively) was characteristic of coatings deposited at 30, 30 and 40mAcm-2, respectively. The higher corrosion resistance of the ternary alloy was also reflected by a higher corrosion potential, a higher impedance and a higher slope of the Mott-Schottky line. The enhanced corrosion behavior of the ternary alloy was thus attributed to its chemical composition, phase content, roughness and the synergistic effect of Ni and Fe on the n-type semiconductor surface film. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.Item Composition modulated multilayer Zn-Fe alloy coatings on mild steel for better corrosion resistance(2011) Venkatakrishna, K.; Hegde, A.C.Composition modulated alloy (CMA) of Zn-Fe coatings were developed on mild steel galvanostatically from chloride bath containing sulphanilic acid (SA) and ascorbic acid (AA) through single bath technique (SBT). The properties of CMA coatings were found to depend on the thickness of individual layers and switching cathode current densities (SCCDs). The CMA (Zn-Fe) coating, having 120 layers, deposited at 20 and 50mAcm-2, were found to show the least corrosion rate (1.545 × 10-2mmy-1) compared to monolithic alloy (32.5 × 10-2mmy-1) of the same thickness. The improved corrosion resistance of multilayered coatings was due to the fact that the defects and failures occurring in a single layer in the deposition process is covered by the successively deposited coating layers, and hence the corrosive agent path is extended or blocked. Further, the high corrosion resistance of CMA Zn-Fe coatings was attributed to the "dielectric barrier" of the coatings, evidenced by dielectric spectroscopy and Mott-Schottky's plot. The corrosion rate was found to increase at high degree of layering, and is attributed to less relaxation time for redistribution of metal ions in diffusion layer, during plating. In other words, at higher layer thickness, the CMA coating tends to become a monolithic. CMA coatings were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.Item Corrosion stability of electrodeposited cyclic multilayer Zn-Ni alloy coatings(2011) Bhat, R.S.; Udupa, K.R.; Hegde, A.C.This paper reports on a study of electrodeposition and characterisation of cyclic multilayer coatings of Zn-Ni alloy from a sulphate bath. Cyclic multilayer alloy coatings were deposited on mild steel through the single bath technique by appropriate manipulation of cathode current densities. The thickness and composition of the individual layers of the CMA deposits were altered precisely and conveniently by cyclic modulation of the cathode current during electrodeposition. Multilayer deposits with sharp change in composition were developed using square current pulses, using thiamine hydrochloride and citric acid as additives. Laminar deposits with different configurations were produced and their corrosion behaviours were studied by AC and DC methods in 5%NaCl solution. It was observed that the corrosion resistance of the CMA coating increased progressively with the number of layers (up to certain optimal numbers) and then decreased. The decrease in corrosion resistance at high degree of layering was attributed to interlayer diffusion due to less relaxation time for redistribution of metal ions at cathode during deposition. The coating configurations have been optimised for peak performance of the coatings against corrosion. It was found that CMA coating developed at cyclic cathode current densities of 3.0/5.0 A dm-2 with 300 layers showed the lowest corrosion rate (0.112×10-2 mm/year) which is ?54 times better than that of monolithic Zn-Ni alloy, deposited from the same bath. The protection efficacy of CMA coatings is attributed to the difference in phase structure of the alloys in successive layers, deposited at different current densities, evidenced by X-ray diffraction analysis. The formation of multilayers and corrosion mechanism were examined by scanning electron microscopy. © 2011 Institute of Metal Finishing.Item The corrosion inhibition of maraging steel under weld aged condition by 1(2E)-1-(4-Aminophenyl)-3-(2-Thienyl)prop-2-en-1-one in 1.5 M hydrochloric acid medium(Springer New York LLC barbara.b.bertram@gsk.com, 2012) Sanatkumar, B.S.; Nayak, J.; Nityananda Shetty, A.N.The influence of 1(2E)-1-(4-Aminophenyl)- 3-(2-Thienyl)prop-2-en-1-one (ATPI) on the corrosion behavior of weld aged maraging steel in 1.5 M hydrochloric acid was studied by potentiodynamic polarization method and AC impedance (EIS) technique at different temperatures. The results showed that the inhibition efficiency of ATPI increased with the increase in the concentration of inhibitor and decreased with the increase in temperature. ATPI acts as a mixed type inhibitor without affecting the mechanism of the hydrogen evolution reaction or iron dissolution. The adsorption of ATPI on a weld aged maraging steel surface obeys the Langmuir adsorption isotherm equation. Both activation and thermodynamic parameters were calculated and discussed. ATPI inhibits the corrosion through both physisorption and chemisorption on the alloy surface. The surface morphology of the weld aged maraging steel specimens in the presence and the absence of the inhibitors was studied by the respective SEM images. © ACA and OCCA 2011.Item Magnetically induced electrodeposition of Zn-Ni alloy coatings and their corrosion behaviors(Elsevier B.V., 2013) Rao, V.R.; Bangera, K.V.; Hegde, A.C.The less magnetic features of Zn-Ni alloy compared to Fe-Ni and Fe-Co alloys made it interesting to develop them under the influence of applied magnetic field. In this regard, the effects of a magnetic field (B) applied in a direction parallel and perpendicular to the nominal current, during electrodeposition process of Zn-Ni alloy have been investigated by means of X-ray diffraction and EDX analysis. The modification of crystal orientation by superimposition of a varying magnetic field is studied for alloys of constant nickel content (8 a %.), deposited at optimal current density (j) of 3.0 A dm-2. The effect of magnetic field on crystallographic orientation and hence the corrosion behaviors of the coatings were studied. The preferential orientations (101) and (002) of the zinc phase and (330) ?-Ni 5Zn21 phase are always favored to exist with parallel and perpendicular magnetic field. The preferential (321) ?-Ni 5Zn21 orientation is found to be the characteristic of perpendicular magnetic field. Further, Zn (100) orientation is found to be non-responsive to the effect of parallel magnetic field. The coatings developed using perpendicular magnetic field is more corrosion resistant compare to that for parallel magnetic field. This is attributed to the additional (321) ?-Ni5Zn21 orientations. The changes in the phase structure of the coatings deposited at different magnetic field are attributed to the effect caused by the magnetic convection induced in the electrolytic solution, called MHD effect (magneto-hydrodynamic effect). The chemical composition of the alloy was found to be same in both natural and magnetically induced deposition due to constant Ni content in the bath. The variation in the surface morphology of the coatings was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The Zn-Ni alloy coating deposited at 0.8 T perpendicular B showed the highest corrosion resistance (with corrosion rate=0.26 × 10-2 mm y-1) compared to the one with no B (corrosion rate = 14.46 × 10-2 mm y-1). The improved corrosion resistance of the coatings was discussed in the light of magnetic field effect on crystallographic orientation. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Item Corrosion inhibition effect of 2,5-bis (3,4,5-trimethoxy phenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole (BTPO) on 18 Ni M250 grade welded maraging steel in 1.0 M sulphuric acid medium(Mohammed Premier University jmaterenvironsci@gmail.com, 2014) Kumar, P.; Nityananda Shetty, A.N.Corrosion inhibition of welded maraging steel in 1.0 M sulphuric acid was studied in the presence of different concentrations of 2,5-bis (3,4,5-trimethoxy phenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole (BTPO) by electrochemical techniques. The results confided that BTPO was a good inhibitor, and the inhibition efficiencies obtained from potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance methods were in good agreement. The inhibitor, BTPO, acted essentially as a mixed-type inhibitor with its inhibition action through its surface adsorption. The inhibition effciency was found to increase with the increase in BTPO concentration but decreased with the increase in temperature. The activation parameters for the corrosion of the alloy and thermodynamic parameters for the adsorption of BTPO on the alloy surface were calculated and discussed. The adsorption of BTPO on welded maraging steel surface was predominantly through physisorption and obeyed the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) study confirmed the formation of an anticorrosion protective film of BTPO on the metal surface.Item Experimental studies on the effects of corrosion on the flexural strength of RC beams(CAFET INNOVA Technical Society cafetinnova@gmail.com 1-2-18/103, Mohini Mansion, Gagan Mahal Road, Domalguda, Hyderabad 500029, 2014) Pandit, P.; Venkataramana, K.; BabuNarayan, K.S.; Parla, B.; Kimura, Y.RC structures are generally very durable and are capable of withstanding a variety of adverse environmental conditions. However, failures of these structures still occur and reinforcement corrosion is one of the major causes. In the present research, corroded Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) beams were tested in the laboratory to evaluate their flexural behavior. Accelerated corrosion technique was adopted to corrode the beams. The corrosion was measured using Applied Corrosion Monitoring (ACM) instrument. From the results, it is seen that, as the rate of corrosion increases, the load carrying capacity decreases. The deflection increases initially and then decreases. It is observed that the stiffness of the beams is reduced when rate of corrosion is increased due to changes in the modulus of elasticity of corroded steel. © 2014 CAFET-INNOVA TECHNICAL SOCIETY.