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Corrosion behavior of ferritic stainless steel with 15wt% chromium for the automobile exhaust system

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The effect of chloride ion concentration, pH value, and grain size on the pitting corrosion resistance of a new ferritic stainless steel with 15wt% Cr was investigated using the anodic polarization method. The semiconducting properties of passive films with different chloride ion concentrations were performed using capacitance measurement and Mott-Schottky analysis methods. The aging precipitation and intergranular corrosion behavior were evaluated at 400–900°C. It is found that the pitting potential decreases when the grain size increases. With the increase in chloride ion concentration, the doping density and the flat-bland potential increase but the thickness of the space charge layer decreases. The pitting corrosion resistance increases rapidly with the decrease in pH value. Precipitants is identified as Nb(C,N) and NbC, rather than Cr-carbide. The intergranular corrosion is attributed to the synergistic effects of Nb(C,N) and NbC precipitates and Cr segregation adjacent to the precipitates.

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Li, Hb., Jiang, Zh., Feng, H. et al. Corrosion behavior of ferritic stainless steel with 15wt% chromium for the automobile exhaust system. Int J Miner Metall Mater 20, 850–860 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-013-0806-4

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