Microbial Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels for Marine Energy Installations

A range of stainless steels has been investigated for resistance to microbiologically influenced corrosion in seawater. The corrosion potential was monitored for stainless steel coupons exposed to sterilized seawater and to microbiologically active seawater, which showed the effect of the growth of...

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Main Authors: Machuca, L., Bailey, Stuart, Gubner, Rolf
Format: Journal Article
Published: Trans Tech Publications Inc 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19960
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author Machuca, L.
Bailey, Stuart
Gubner, Rolf
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description A range of stainless steels has been investigated for resistance to microbiologically influenced corrosion in seawater. The corrosion potential was monitored for stainless steel coupons exposed to sterilized seawater and to microbiologically active seawater, which showed the effect of the growth of microorganisms. Cyclic potentiodynamic polarization scans confirmed that 13%Cr stainless steel is very susceptible to localized corrosion under these conditions. 316L stainless steel was also quite susceptible to localized corrosion, whereas 2205 duplex stainless displayed good resistance to localized corrosion. Naturally occurring microorganisms in the seawater were shown to exacerbate the localized corrosion.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-199602018-07-16T05:57:33Z Microbial Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels for Marine Energy Installations Machuca, L. Bailey, Stuart Gubner, Rolf Corrosion Resistant Alloys Seawater Corrosion Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion A range of stainless steels has been investigated for resistance to microbiologically influenced corrosion in seawater. The corrosion potential was monitored for stainless steel coupons exposed to sterilized seawater and to microbiologically active seawater, which showed the effect of the growth of microorganisms. Cyclic potentiodynamic polarization scans confirmed that 13%Cr stainless steel is very susceptible to localized corrosion under these conditions. 316L stainless steel was also quite susceptible to localized corrosion, whereas 2205 duplex stainless displayed good resistance to localized corrosion. Naturally occurring microorganisms in the seawater were shown to exacerbate the localized corrosion. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19960 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.347-353.3591 Trans Tech Publications Inc restricted
spellingShingle Corrosion Resistant Alloys
Seawater
Corrosion
Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion
Machuca, L.
Bailey, Stuart
Gubner, Rolf
Microbial Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels for Marine Energy Installations
title Microbial Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels for Marine Energy Installations
title_full Microbial Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels for Marine Energy Installations
title_fullStr Microbial Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels for Marine Energy Installations
title_full_unstemmed Microbial Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels for Marine Energy Installations
title_short Microbial Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels for Marine Energy Installations
title_sort microbial corrosion resistance of stainless steels for marine energy installations
topic Corrosion Resistant Alloys
Seawater
Corrosion
Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19960