Corrosion behavior of carbon steel in dilute ammonia solution
By Sun, Li; Xiong, Zhe; Qiu, Jie; Zhu, Yakun; Macdonald, Digby D.
Published in Electrochimica Acta
Electrochimica Acta
2020
Abstract
This study explores the corrosion of carbon steel in ammonia solutions containing dissolved oxygen and chloride, simulating boilers under wet layup conditions. An adsorption mechanism is proposed in which ammonia is postulated to be an inhibiting species at low NH3 (i.e. 9.061