Corrosion protection of mild-steel in 1M HCl using nanocomposite from Triumfetta rhomboidei

Abstract

Titanium nanocomposite (TiTR) was synthesised from Triumfetta rhomboidea leaf extract and used as corrosion protection of mild steel (MS) in 1 M hydrochloric acid. The corrosion inhibition process of the nanocomposite was explored using weight loss, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and potentiodynamic polarisation (PDP). The corrosion inhibition performance of TiTR is a function of concentration and temperature. The results revealed that TiTR was 84.27% efficient in limiting MS corrosion at 1.0 g L⁻¹ and 3 h. The TiTR acted as a mixed-type corrosion inhibitor and Langmuir isotherm indicated that TiTR was adsorbed on mild steel through physisorption by forming a monolayer of film. Surface morphology study of MS visually confirmed the protection of MS by TiTR through film formation.

KEYWORDS:

• Corrosion inhibition
• leaf extract
• mild steel
• nanocomposite
• synthesis
• triumfetta rhomboidea

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