TY - JOUR
T1 - Adsorption and corrosion inhibition characteristics of 2–(chloromethyl)benzimidazole for C1018 carbon steel in a typical sweet corrosion environment
T2 - Effect of chloride ion concentration and temperature
AU - Solomon, Moses M.
AU - Onyeachu, Ikenna B.
AU - Njoku, Demian I.
AU - Nwanonenyi, Simeon C.
AU - Oguzie, Emeka E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/2/5
Y1 - 2021/2/5
N2 - Benzimidazole derivatives are emerging as promising corrosion inhibitors for oil and gas application because they exhibit high efficiency and very good environmental profile. Although long alkyl and phenyl chains enhance their efficiency, they also increase their toxicity. Finding benzimidazole derivatives devoid of long hydrocarbon chains and with lower toxicity has become a priority. 2–(chloromethyl)benzimidazole (CMB), with log Po/w = 2.2, has been investigated as a promising low-toxic sweet corrosion inhibitor for C1018 carbon steel in CO2–saturated NaCl solution under static condition using experimental and theoretical approaches. At 25 °C, Open circuit potential (OCP), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and potentiodynamic polarization (PDP) techniques confirm that CMB is an anodic-type sweet corrosion inhibitor which is able to form a protective layer on the steel surface and provide inhibition efficiency of 97.54% at 10 ppm. The efficiency increased to 98.40% and 98.58% upon increasing the temperature to 40 °C and 60 °C, respectively but decreased to 96.32% and 94.76% as the salt concentration was raised to 5.0% and 7.0% NaCl, respectively. The latter was attributed to the antagonistic competition between Cl– ions and CMB for anodic adsorption. The CMB–steel interaction is facilitated by the free electrons around N heteroatoms and C = C bonds, based on FTIR analysis and computational calculations. This eventually ameliorates the surface degradation of the steel during the sweet corrosion at 25 and 60 °C. CMB performance is highly comparable with reported sweet corrosion inhibitors with higher toxicity values.
AB - Benzimidazole derivatives are emerging as promising corrosion inhibitors for oil and gas application because they exhibit high efficiency and very good environmental profile. Although long alkyl and phenyl chains enhance their efficiency, they also increase their toxicity. Finding benzimidazole derivatives devoid of long hydrocarbon chains and with lower toxicity has become a priority. 2–(chloromethyl)benzimidazole (CMB), with log Po/w = 2.2, has been investigated as a promising low-toxic sweet corrosion inhibitor for C1018 carbon steel in CO2–saturated NaCl solution under static condition using experimental and theoretical approaches. At 25 °C, Open circuit potential (OCP), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and potentiodynamic polarization (PDP) techniques confirm that CMB is an anodic-type sweet corrosion inhibitor which is able to form a protective layer on the steel surface and provide inhibition efficiency of 97.54% at 10 ppm. The efficiency increased to 98.40% and 98.58% upon increasing the temperature to 40 °C and 60 °C, respectively but decreased to 96.32% and 94.76% as the salt concentration was raised to 5.0% and 7.0% NaCl, respectively. The latter was attributed to the antagonistic competition between Cl– ions and CMB for anodic adsorption. The CMB–steel interaction is facilitated by the free electrons around N heteroatoms and C = C bonds, based on FTIR analysis and computational calculations. This eventually ameliorates the surface degradation of the steel during the sweet corrosion at 25 and 60 °C. CMB performance is highly comparable with reported sweet corrosion inhibitors with higher toxicity values.
KW - Benzimidazole
KW - Carbon steel
KW - Corrosion inhibition
KW - Sweet corrosion
KW - Temperature
KW - Toxicity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125638
DO - 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125638
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85095575778
SN - 0927-7757
VL - 610
JO - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
JF - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
M1 - 125638
ER -