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Synergistic effect of some antiscalants as corrosion inhibitor for industrial cooling water system

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In order to study synergistic effect, various combinations of antiscalants 1-hydroxyethane-1,1-diphosphonic acid (HEDP), sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP), sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP), and trisodium phosphate (TSP), were investigated as corrosion inhibitors for carbon steel. Corrosion rate and percentage inhibition efficiency of various combinations of antiscalants as corrosion inhibitors (20/80, 40/60, 60/40, 50/50, 80/20, and 100 ppm of different combinations of HEDP, SHMP, STPP, and TSP) in synthetic cooling water VI (692 ppm of Cl− ions) was determined by weight loss, electrochemical polarization technique, and metallurgical microscopy technique. It was observed that a 50/50 ppm combination of HEDP and SHMP gave 98% corrosion inhibition efficiency and maximum synergistic effect. The percentage inhibition efficiency of HEDP when mixed with other antiscalants as corrosion inhibitors at 50/50 ppm concentration was found in the following order HEDP/SHMP > HEDP/STPP > HEDP/TSP. The synergistic effect of HEDP/SHMP combination is due to intermolecular hydrogen bonding between the molecules of HEDP and SHMP, which results in the adsorption of uniform multilayered two-dimensional film of –HEDP–SHMP– molecules on carbon steel surface.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Ch. Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana, India

    Harish Kumar Moudgil & Dheeraj Kumar

  2. Advanced Group of Institutions, Aurangabad, Palwal, Haryana, India

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Moudgil, H.K., Yadav, S., Chaudhary, R.S. et al. Synergistic effect of some antiscalants as corrosion inhibitor for industrial cooling water system. J Appl Electrochem 39, 1339–1347 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10800-009-9807-4

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