Passivity breakdown of 13Cr stainless steel under high chloride and CO<sub>2</sub> environment

Hui-xin Li; Da-peng Li; Lei Zhang; Ya-wen Wang; Xiu-yun Wang; Min-xu Lu

doi:10.1007/s12613-019-1741-9

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Hui-xin Li, Da-peng Li, Lei Zhang, Ya-wen Wang, Xiu-yun Wang, and Min-xu Lu, Passivity breakdown of 13Cr stainless steel under high chloride and CO₂ environment, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 26(2019), No. 3, pp. 329-336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-019-1741-9

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Hui-xin Li, Da-peng Li, Lei Zhang, Ya-wen Wang, Xiu-yun Wang, and Min-xu Lu, Passivity breakdown of 13Cr stainless steel under high chloride and CO2 environment, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 26(2019), No. 3, pp. 329-336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-019-1741-9

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Passivity breakdown of 13Cr stainless steel under high chloride and CO₂ environment

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Lei Zhang E-mail: zhanglei@ustb.edu.cn
Received: 24 May 2018; Revised: 6 July 2018; Accepted: 13 July 2018

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Herein, the effect of high chloride ion (Cl^-) concentration on the corrosion behavior and passive film breakdown of 13Cr martensitic stainless steel under CO₂ environment was demonstrated. The Cl^- concentration was varied from 30 to 150 g/L and cyclic potentiodynamic polarization was conducted to investigate the influence of the Cl^- concentration on the corrosion potential (E_corr), passive breakdown potential (E_pit), and repassivation potential (E_rep). The results of the polarization curves revealed that 13Cr stainless steel is susceptible to pitting under high Cl^- concentration. The passive breakdown potential and repassivation potential decreased with the increase of Cl^- concentration. The semiconducting behavior of the passive film was investigated by Mott-Schottky analysis and the point defect model (PDM). It was observed that the iron cation vacancies and oxygen vacancies were continuously generated by autocatalytic reactions and the higher Cl^- concentration resulted in higher vacancies in the passive film. Once the excess vacancies condensed at the metal/film interface, the passive film became locally detached from the metal, which led to the breakdown of the passive film.
- 13Cr stainless steel;
- electrochemical characterization;
- pitting corrosion;
- high chloride concentration;
- passive film breakdown

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