Estudo de aminoácidos sulfurados como inibidores de corrosão do aço carbono em meio aquoso de cloreto

Abstract

This work aims to study the inhibition´s effects of two sulfur amino acids (cysteine and methionine) as corrosion inhibitors of carbon steel 1010 in chloride medium. The study was carried out by gravimetric and electrochemical techniques, such as potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Parameters that might influence the performance of amino acids, such as concentration (10-2 - 10-5 M), pH (1 and 7), temperature (5 - 60 ° C) and addition of additives (molybdate, tungstate and silicate) were investigated. A study of the adsorption was also made, and that from it were obtained thermodynamic and kinetic parameters. Additionally, the surface morphology of the substrate was assessed by scanning electron microscopy to check the progress of the corrosion products with time of immersion. The results showed that the pH is an important factor in the performance of amino acids because the anticorrosion characteristics. The impedance measures showed that occurs only a charge transfer process at the interface electrode / solution, and the efficiency increases with time due to the increase of adsorbed molecules. The process of adsorption of amino acids on the metal´s surface is exothermic and spontaneous. The micrographs showed that in the presence of amino acids the corrosion process of steel is retarded. It was found that the cysteine forms a soluble complex with the metal while methionine did not present this phenomenon during the same period. The inorganic compounds do not provide a synergistic effect on amino acids, i.e., there weren´t an increase in the performance of them.