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Laboratory Investigation of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of X80 Pipeline Steel by Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

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The corrosion behavior of X80 pipeline steel induced by sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) was investigated. More corrosion pits were found in the SRB-inoculated medium than in the sterile medium. Carbon starvation tests were carried out in the SRB-inoculated culture media with 0, 10, and 100% organic carbon. Electrochemical results indicate that coupons immersed in the 0% and 10% carbon source media exhibited far more aggressive corrosion. FIB images show a loose outer corrosion layer of the coupons immersed in the 0% carbon source medium. Both metabolite and extracellular electron transfer worked as the corrosion mechanism in this study, while the predominant mechanism in the carbon source reduced media was extracellular electron transfer.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFB0304701), Open Fund of Shandong Key Laboratory of Corrosion Science (No. KLCS201909) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. FRF-NP-20-04).

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    Liying Cui, Zhiyong Liu & Jiamin Shao

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Cui, L., Liu, Z., Hu, P. et al. Laboratory Investigation of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of X80 Pipeline Steel by Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 30, 7584–7596 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-021-05974-z

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