Corrosion of diffusion zinc coatings in sodium chloride solutions published by Ural Federal University eISSN 2411-1414; chimicatechnoacta.ru ARTICLE 2022, vol. 9(4), No. 20229421 DOI: 10.15826/chimtech.2022.9.4.21 1 of 6 Corrosion of diffusion zinc coatings in sodium chloride solutions Alexander I. Biryukov a, Dmitry A. Zakharyevich a, Tatyana V. Batmanova a * , Rashit G. Galin b, Maksim N. Ulyanov a, Vladimir E. Zhivulin c a: Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk 454001, Russia b: Vika-Gal LTD, Chelyabinsk 454087, Russia c: South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk 454080, Russia * Corresponding author: batmanovatt@gmail.com This paper belongs to a Regular Issue. © 2022, the Authors. This article is published in open access under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Abstract Diffusion galvanizing is widely used in the pipe industry for coating the threaded surface of pipe couplings and protecting water pipelines, gas pipelines, and other metal products. Diffusion coatings have a number of advantages over other types of zinc coatings. In this work, electrochemical and gravimetric methods were used to study the cor- rosion behavior of diffusion zinc coatings in sodium chloride solu- tions. The corrosion rate depends non-linearly on the thickness of the coating. At the initial stages, the corrosion rate of coatings depends on the structure of the phases on the surface, and with an increase in the holding time, the corrosion rate depends to a greater extent on the properties of the products formed during the corrosion process. The films of corrosion products of diffusion zinc coatings consist of zinc oxide/hydroxide and basic zinc salts, while the composition of the filmf changes with increasing coating thickness. Keywords corrosion sherardizing zinc coatings Received: 05.10.22 Revised: 10.11.22 Accepted: 11.11.22 Available online: 18.11.22 1. Introduction Zinc coating is one of the most popular methods of protecting steel products from corrosion. Galvanic zinc coatings and the so-called "hot" zinc coatings are widely used in industry. These coatings are obtained by immersing steel products in a zinc melt. They differ in the chemical and phase composi- tion, besides the method of application. Galvanic zinc coat- ings are practically pure zinc and are uniform in thickness. The coatings obtained from the melt consist of iron-zinc phases, which are distributed layer by layer, in accordance with the phase diagram of Zn-Fe [1]. According to the dia- gram, zinc and iron can form the following phases: α-; Г-; δ-; ζ- and η-phase, in the order of increasing zinc concentration [1]. The composition of "hot" zinc coatings includes η- and ζ-phases with a zinc concentration of 95.0–96.0 wt.% [1, 2]. The corrosion behavior of such coatings has been studied by various authors [3–6] and is often interpreted on the basis of the corrosion mechanism of pure zinc [7–11]. The sherardizing method involves heating the steel products in mixtures based on zinc powders. The ad- vantages of this approach are the possibility of obtaining coatings with desired properties, high productivity, mini- mal production waste and a low load on the environment. Diffusion zinc coatings consist of iron-zinc phases, but their structure is dominated by a phase with a lower zinc content, the δ-phase (88.5–93.0 wt.%). A few works were devoted to the study of corrosion of diffusion zinc coatings [12–14]. Galin [15] developed a sherardizing technology using saturating powder mixtures with nanostructured zinc ox- ide. This technology is used now at the enterprises of JSC "PNTZ" and PJSC "SinTZ" for applying diffusion zinc coat- ing on the threaded surface of tubing couplings and at other enterprises for galvanizing metal products. The technology makes it possible to obtain coatings consisting of predomi- nantly single-phase layers of iron-zinc phases of relatively large thickness. The work [16] provides the data on the me- chanical properties of the coatings, their hardness and cor- rosion under operating conditions. The purpose of this work is to study the corrosion behavior of diffusion zinc coatings using various laboratory corrosion test methods. 2. Materials and methods Diffusion zinc coatings were applied to steel discs (steel 45) with a diameter of 32.0 mm and a thickness of 2.5 mm. The galvanizing temperature was 450 °C, the duration was from 1 to 4 hours. The saturating mixture contained http://chimicatechnoacta.ru/ https://doi.org/10.15826/chimtech.2022.9.4.21 mailto:batmanovatt@gmail.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8049-0940 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4389-8936 https://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=https://doi.org/10.15826/chimtech.2022.9.4.21&domain=pdf&date_stamp=2022-11-18 Chimica Techno Acta 2022, vol. 9(4), No. 20229421 ARTICLE 2 of 6 zinc particles with nanostructured oxide on the surface [15–18], which is a feature of the proprietary technology. The galvanizing technique is described in [15–18]. The re- sulting coatings have a dark gray color and a uniform ap- pearance. The thickness of the coatings was determined with a magnetic thickness gauge. The samples with a thickness of 20 to 80 μm were used. The corrosive medium in all studies was a 3 wt.% so- dium chloride solution. It was prepared by dissolving weighed portions of a chemically pure grade reagent in dis- tilled water. The determination of the corrosion rate of the samples by the gravimetric method was carried out at room temper- ature, and the exposure time was 30 days. The geometric parameters of the samples were measured with an accuracy of 0.1 cm and weighed before and after testing with an ac- curacy of 0.0001 g. The corrosion products were removed mechanically after exposure. Based on the results of deter- mining the area and weight loss, the corrosion rate was cal- culated as g∙m–2∙hour-1. A flat corrosion cell was used to measure electrode po- tentials and polarization curves. A silver chloride electrode was used as a reference electrode (the potentials were re- calculated to a standard hydrogen scale), and a graphite electrode served as an auxiliary one. The polarization curves were recorded after measuring the stationary poten- tial, after 1 hour exposure in a corrosive environment. The polarization curves were obtained in the potential range from (–1.3) to (+0.2) V (SHE) with a sweep rate of 5 mV∙s–1. The curves were used to estimate the corrosion current density. The corrosion current density of the coatings under study was estimated from the point of intersection of the linear sections of the anodic and cathodic curves. The time dependences of the potential were obtained in the same clamping cell using a silver chloride reference electrode. The measurements were carried out for 60 minutes, until stationary values were established. Corrosion products of diffusion zinc coatings were char- acterized using by X-ray phase analysis (DRON-3, Cu Kα) and scanning electron microscopy (Jeol JSM7001F micro- scope with an Oxford INCA X-max 80 energy dispersive spectrometer for X-ray spectral microanalysis). 3. Results and Discussion In the previous works [17–19], the relationship between the coating thickness, phase and chemical composition of the surface layers is described in detail. The δ-phase (FeZn7–10) is present on the surface of the coatings with a thickness of 10 to 40 μm, and for the coatings with a thickness of 50 to 80 μm the ζ-phase (FeZn13) appears on the surface. The pro- portion of ζ-phase increases with the thickness of the coat- ing. The corrosion behavior of diffusion zinc coatings was compared with samples of pure zinc, imitating galvanic zinc coatings and samples of a substrate made of steel 45. 3.1. Stationary potentials Figure 1 shows a time dependence of the electrode potential of a coating. The potential shifts over time to the negative region by 90 mV. This is apparently due to the corrosion of the coating and the formation of a film of corrosion prod- ucts. At the initial stage of the corrosion process, the film is inhomogeneous and does not protect the coating, since oth- erwise the electrode potential would be refined. Stationary potentials of different samples were compared (Table 1). Steel has the most positive potential, and zinc has the most negative potential. Their potentials differ by 300 mV, which with a small error corresponds to the difference between the standard electrode potentials of zinc and iron. The stationary potentials of the coatings are in the range of –0.6 to–0.8 V (SHE). As the thickness increases, the elec- trode potential of the coating shifts to the negative region. This is due to the fact that with increasing thickness the concentration of zinc in the surface layer increases. Zinc has a more negative potential and, consequently, the coat- ing potential also becomes more negative. No extremum is observed in the series of potentials. 3.2. Polarization curves Figure 2 shows the polarization curves of the diffusion zinc coatings of various thicknesses. It can be seen that the coat- ing with a minimum thickness of 10 μm has a more positive stationary potential, which can be explained by a relatively high concentration of iron. The electrode potentials of other coatings are in the range from –0.6 to –0.8 V (SHE), which corresponds to the distribution of stationary potentials of the coatings. Figure 1 Dependence of E on τ for a zinc coating (50 μm). Table 1 Stationary potentials of the samples. Sample / thickness, μm Е, mV (SHE) Steel 45 – 403 Zinc coating /10 μm – 600 Zinc coating /20 μm – 700 Zinc coating /40 μm – 738 Zinc coating /80 μm – 758 Zinc – 803 Chimica Techno Acta 2022, vol. 9(4), No. 20229421 ARTICLE 3 of 6 Figure 2 Polarization curves of diffusion zinc coatings of various thicknesses. However, in this case, no strict dependence of the po- tential values is observed on the coating thickness. The an- odic polarization curves do not have any inflection points, and the oxidation current increases uniformly as the poten- tial is shifted. On the cathodic polarization curve of the 10 μm thick sample, a small current area is observed be- tween the potentials –0.6 V and –1.0 V (SHE). This shape of the cathode curve corresponds to a slow diffusion of oxygen to the electrode surface. On the cathode curves of the re- maining coatings, this section is not pronounced. A nonlinear dependence of the corrosion current on the thickness is observed for the diffusion zinc coatings (Table 2). The samples of diffusion zinc coatings with a thickness of 30–40 μm have the minimum value of the corrosion cur- rent. In the previous works [19, 20], a minimum of the cor- rosion rate was also observed for the coatings on the sur- face of which the δ-phase was present, the composition of which approximately corresponds to the middle of the re- gion of its existence in the Fe-Zn phase diagram. The authors [19, 20] explained this by the structural fea- tures of the δ-phase, in particular, by the minimum number of relatively isolated zinc atoms in the structure, with the composition of the δ-phase corresponding to the observed minimum of the corrosion current. With an increase in thickness over 40 μm, which corresponds to the transition from the δ-phase to the ζ-phase, the corrosion current dou- bles compared to the coatings predominantly consisting of the δ-phase. The corrosion current increases to a lesser ex- tent with a decrease in the thickness of the coatings, which can be associated with an increase in the concentration of iron in the surface layers. 3.3. Gravimetric tests Figure 3 shows the dependence of the gravimetric corro- sion rate of coatings on their thickness. The corrosion rate of steel 45 (the reference data according to [21]) is two times higher than the corrosion rate of zinc, and the cor- rosion rate of the coatings is in the range of 0.02–0.03 g∙m–2∙h–1 regardless of the thickness. When passing from coatings with the δ-phase on the surface to coatings with the ζ-phase, a slight increase is observed in the corrosion rate, which may be associated with disturb- ances in the phase composition of the surface layers. The gravimetric method also gives a nonlinear depend- ence of the corrosion rate on thickness, although the spread is less than that observed for the initial corrosion stage. The coatings that are in the middle of the studied thickness range have the maximum corrosion rate. This dependence differs from that obtained when assessing the corrosion current, where the coatings with a thickness of 30–40 μm had a minimum corrosion rate. It should be noted that when recording the polarization curves, the exposure of the coatings in a corrosive environ- ment did not exceed 1 hour, while, in the gravimetric stud- ies, the exposure was 720 hours. Corrosion formed on the coatings during the long exposure. 3.4. Corrosion products Figure 4 shows the diffraction patterns of the diffusion zinc coatings of different thicknesses after exposure for 720 hours in a 3% NaCl solution. The compositions of the corrosion products are similar, the films contain zinc ox- ide/hydroxide ZnO/Zn(OH)2 as well basic zinc salts. These include basic zinc chloride (simoncolleite) Zn5Cl2(OH)8∙H2O and basic zinc carbonate (hydrozincite) Zn5(OH)6(CO3)2. Thus, the films of corrosion products are mixtures of zinc compounds with different ability to protect the metal from corrosion. With an increase in the thickness of the coating, the intensity of the peaks corresponding to zinc oxide/hy- droxide increases, while the intensity of the peaks of simon- colleite and hydrozincite decreases. Table 2 Corrosion currents of the investigated coatings in 3% NaCl solution. Figure 3 Corrosion rate of coatings, steel and zinc. Thickness, μm icorr·10 –3, mA/cm2 10 2,5 20 3,1 30 1,3 40 1,4 55 3,4 80 3,4 Chimica Techno Acta 2022, vol. 9(4), No. 20229421 ARTICLE 4 of 6 Figure 5 shows electron microscopic images of a trans- verse section of a coating (thickness 50 μm) after 720 hours exposition in 3% sodium chloride. The corrosion products (dark-gray area at the top part of Figure 5) uniformly cover the remaining coating and fill cracks and defects. Thus, the products of corrosion prevent further contact of the corro- sive medium with the coating. According to the X-ray microanalysis data, the corrosion products in cracks have the following chemical composition (at.%): O – 41.75; Cl – 9.55; Fe – 3.65; Zn – 45.05. The concen- tration of chemical elements satisfactorily corresponds to si- monkolleite, which is confirmed by the X-ray phase analysis. 3.5. Discussion Zinc corrosion is usually represented as the work of local- ized anode and cathode sites. Oxidation occurs at the anode sites: Zn – 2e → Zn2+, (1) and oxygen reduction – at the cathode sites: 1/2O2 + H2O + 2e– → 2OH–. (2) The accumulation of Zn2+ and OH– leads to the formation of amorphous zinc hydroxide: Zn2+ + 2OH– → Zn(OH)2, (3) which, in turn, can be converted depending on pH to zinc oxide ZnO or crystalline forms of zinc hydroxide Zn(OH)2. These compounds exhibit semiconductor properties and poorly protect the metal from corrosion. If carbonate ions CO32– or hydrocarbonate ions HCO3– are present in the so- lution, basic zinc carbonate Zn(CO3)2(OH)6 can be formed, for example, by the reaction [22,23]: 5Zn(OH)2(s)+2HCO32–+2H+→Zn5(OH)6(CO3)2+4H2O. (4) In solutions with a high content of chloride ions Cl–, basic zinc chloride is formed Zn5Cl2(OH)8∙H2O [22, 23]: 5Zn(OH)2 + 2Cl– + H2O → Zn5(OH)8Cl2∙H2O + 2OH–. (5) The literature describes various mechanisms for the for- mation of basic salts during the zinc corrosion. These com- pounds are known to form insoluble, poorly conductive films that are capable of slowing down the corrosion of zinc. However, the formation of such compounds takes some time [22, 23]. A feature of the corrosion of iron-zinc coatings FeZn and zinc alloys in general is the selective dissolution of zinc as a more electronegative metal. In a number of works [24, 25], it is noted that selective dissolution can have a positive effect on the anticorrosion properties of a film of corrosion prod- ucts, in particular, due to the formation of a microheteroge- neous rough surface, which is convenient for the nucleation of numerous crystallization centers, or due to the enrichment of the film with a more noble metal. Thus, at the beginning of corrosion, with minimal expo- sure to the environment, the corrosion characteristics of coatings are affected by the structure and phase composi- tion of the surface layers. At this moment, there are no films of corrosion products on the surface of the coatings. The dependences of the corrosion current on the coating thick- ness at this stage can be explained by the structural and phase inhomogeneity of surface coatings of various thick- nesses [19, 20]. With an increase in the exposure time, films of corrosion products have a greater effect on the corrosion rate. So, a loose layer of iron hydroxides is formed on the steel, which has low adhesion to the metal base. Such a layer of corro- sion products poorly protects the sample from contact with an aggressive environment, so the corrosion rate of steel is the highest. As shown by the authors of [26], in the presence of chlo- ride ions on the surface of iron-zinc coatings, the formation of basic zinc salts occurs faster than on the surface of pure zinc. This explains the lower gravimetric corrosion rate of diffusion zinc coatings compared to pure zinc. At the same time, when analyzing films of corrosion products, it can be seen that they are mixtures of various zinc compounds, both zinc oxide and basic salts. These com- pounds have different ability to inhibit the corrosion process. Increasing the concentration of zinc oxide/hydroxide in the film leads to an increase in the corrosion rate of the coatings. Figure 4 Diffraction patterns of corrosion products. Figure 5 Cross section of coating after corrosion in 3% NaCl. Chimica Techno Acta 2022, vol. 9(4), No. 20229421 ARTICLE 5 of 6 The question of the chemical or structural state of iron in corrosion products that provide the best long-term pro- tection in a corrosive environment requires separate con- sideration. Some authors made assumptions about the rea- sons for the positive effect of iron on the protective ability of zinc corrosion products. In [24], the authors point to the formation of a dense deposit, which slows down the ionic conductivity. It was shown in [25] that a film of corrosion products with 7 wt.% Fe suppresses the oxygen reduction reaction due to its low electrical conductivity. In addition, in [27, 28], it was assumed that the effect of iron is reduced to the amorphization of the deposit of corrosion products, an increase in its compactness and a decrease in porosity. 4. Conclusions The corrosion rate of diffusion zinc coatings depends non- linearly on the thickness, while on average it is two times less than the corrosion rate of steel and one and a half times less than the corrosion rate of zinc. At the initial stages, the corrosion rate of the coatings is influenced by the structure and phase composition of the surface layers of the coating. With an increase in the exposure time, the corrosion rate of the coating depends to a greater extent on the properties and composition of the film of corrosion products. The films of corrosion products of the diffusion zinc coatings consist of zinc oxide and basic zinc salts, while the composition of the films changes with increasing coating thickness. Supplementary materials No supplementary materials are available. Funding The research was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Chelyabinsk Region (project no. 20-43- 740026), https://kias.rfbr.ru/. Acknowledgments None. Author contributions Conceptualization: B.A.I., B.T.V., Z.D.A., R.G.G. Data curation: B.A.I. Formal Analysis: B.A.I, Z.D.A., B.T.V. Funding acquisition: B.A.I., Z.D.A., R.G.G. Investigation: B.A.I., Z.D.A., B.T.V., M.N.U., V.E.Z. Methodology: B.A.I., B.T.V., R.G.G. Project administration: B.A.I., Z.D.A. Resources: B.A.I., Z.D.A., B.T.V., R.G.G., M.N.U., V.E.Z. Software: Z.D.A., B.T.V. Supervision: B.T.V. Validation: B.A.I., B.T.V. Visualization: B.A.I., Z.D.A., B.T.V., V.E.Z. Writing –original draft: B.A.I, B.T.V. Writing –review & editing: B.A.I., Z.D.A. Conflict of interest The authors declare no conflict of interest. Additional information Author IDs: Alexander I. Biryukov, Scopus ID 57190129477; Tatyana V. Batmanova, Scopus ID 57208816951; Dmitry A. Zakharyevich, Scopus ID 6507370493; Maksim N. Ulyanov, Scopus ID 56578474900; Rashit G. Galin, Scopus ID 7004133681; Vladimir E. Zhivulin, Scopus ID 57044766800. 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