Microsoft Word - 17-27   17   Ibn Al-Haitham Jour. for Pure & Appl.Sci. IHJPAS https://doi.org/10.30526/32.1.1983 Vol. 32 (1) 2019 Gallic Acid as Corrosion Inhibitor for Aluminum 6061 in Alkali Solutions    Enas Hussien Ali enashali1983@gamil.com Takialdin A. Himdan takihimdan@yahoo.com Zainab.W.Ahmed ZainabWajdi@yahoo.com Department of Chemistry, College of Education for Pure Sciences Ibn-Al-Haitham, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq. Article history: Received 21 October 2018, Accepted 11 December 2018, Publish January 2019 Abstract The research aims to study the corrosion of aluminum alloy (6061) in 0.6 mol. dm-3 NaCl solution in base medium pH 12 was examined with out and with Gallic acid as environmentally – friendly corrosion inhibitor at temperature range (298-313) K. The inhibitive action of gallic acid on corrosion of aluminum alloy (6061) in KOH solution was examined through electrochemical polarization method using potentiostatic technique and surface analysis by optical microscopy, Polarization measurements indicate that the examined compound act as a mixed type inhibitor. Results appeared that the inhibition occurs through adsorption of the inhibitor molecules on the metal surface and it was obeyed Langmuir adsorption isotherm. Some thermodynamic parameters activation energy E and ∆G . were calculated to elaborate the mechanism of inhibition. The surface characteristic of the inhibited and uninhibited metal samples was examined by optical microscopy. Keywords: Aluminum, Corrosion inhibition, Gallic acid, Adsorption Mechanism, thermodynamic parameters. 1.Introduction Corrosion is a destructive phenomenon (chemical or electrochemical), which can attack any material or alloy due to interactions with the surrounding medium that leads to a deterioration of metal physical and chemical properties. according to this definition term corrosion can include all materials, metals and non-metals [1, 2]. It is a continues problem and often difficult to complete deletion, so prevention is more practical [3]. But practically term corrosion is used with metals exclusively. Aluminum was used widely in many sections such as chemical plant, manufacturing lines, and marine industries. The advantage is the use of aluminum is due to their excellent corrosion resistance property and it has excellent formability, low density, high thermal and electrical conductivity, and thus it becomes a seniority in materials selections in most industries [4, 5]. As well-known aluminum compounds have been used for centuries, the production of aluminum metal begun 170 years ago [6]. Aluminum has an attractive appearance and good resistance to corrosion when exposed to atmosphere or various aqueous environments because its ability to form a highly compact passive oxide layer [7-9]. These properties made aluminum one of the most attractive materials for industrial applications like automobiles, aviation, aerospace, food handling, containers, electronic devices,   18   Ibn Al-Haitham Jour. for Pure & Appl.Sci. IHJPAS https://doi.org/10.30526/32.1.1983 Vol. 32 (1) 2019 buildings, marine, etc[10]. Although the oxide film formed on aluminium relies for its corrosion immunity, this film is amphoteric so it dissolves in case of exposes to high concentrations of bases or acids especially in present of chloride [11]. Among the most common protection method is inhibitors (organic and inorganic) [12-15], when the inhibitor added to corrosive sample in a small quantity reduce the corrosion are commonly used to reduce corrosion. The present work is another attempt to obtain environmentally and cheap inhibitor for aluminum in basic medium containing (3.5% w/w) NaCl, where gallic acid is tested. Gallic acid is an organic acid, also known as 3, 4, 5-trihydroxybenzoic acid, , a type of phenolic acid, Gallic acid is a colorless or slightly yellow crystalline compound obtained from nutgalls., found in plants free and as part of hydrolyzable tannins[15]. Gallic acid occurring mostly in certain red fruits, black radish, and onions [16] Due to the OH− groups in the ortho position on the aromaticrings, gallic acids are able to form chelates with copper and other metallic cations (e.g., iron) [17,18]. 2.Materials and Method The experiments were performed with aluminum alloy 6061 of following composition as shown in Table1 of 2mm thickness which was mechanically press-cut into circular form 2cm diameter. Table 1. The chemical composition of aluminum 6061. Aluminum alloy Si Fe Cu Mn Mg Cr Ni Zn V 6061 0.66 0.35 0.33 0.004 1.04 0.21 - 0.09 0.008 Chemicals used in this work include: a. Sodium chloride, was used for preparation of the aggressive solution of 0.6𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝑑𝑚 . b. Potassium hydroxide. c. Gallic acid tested as inhibitor (>98% purity). Its structure is shown below. Structure of gallic acid   19   Ibn Al-Haitham Jour. for Pure & Appl.Sci. IHJPAS https://doi.org/10.30526/32.1.1983 Vol. 32 (1) 2019 2.1. Solution The solution used was made of A.R. Sodium chloride to prepare 0.6𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝑑𝑚 concentration in pH 12. Doubled distilled water was used for the preparation. For each experiment a freshly solution was made. Three concentrations of the inhibitor (Gallic acid) were used 3 10 , 6 10 and 9 10 mol. dm . 3. Results and Discussion 3.1 Tafel Polarization Measurements Tafel polarization technique was used to study the corrosion of aluminium alloy 6061 in 0.6 mol. dm-3 Sodium chloride solution in basic medium at four temperatures over rang (298-313). Figure 1. shows potentiostatic polarization curves. Corrosion parameters i , E , b and b are obtained from the Tafel polarization curves and tabulated in Table 2. The results show the increase in the corrosion current density i with temperature rising. From negative shift of E with temperature rising can be concluded that anodic process is much more affected than cathodic, this observation is in accordance with other published results[1,3] which proposed the dependence of i and E on solution parameters. The electrochemical cathodic and anodic reactions of aluminum alloy 6061, in basic solution can be described as follows [19]. 𝐴𝑙 3𝑂𝐻 → 𝐴𝑙 𝑂𝐻 3𝑒 (1) (2) 𝐴𝑙 4𝑂𝐻 → 𝐴𝑙 𝑂𝐻 3𝑒 (3) Table 2. Data of polarization curve for corrosion of aluminum alloy 6061 in PH=12over temperature range (298-313) K. with presence of 0.6mol. dm NaCl. Penetration loss/mm.year-1 Weight loss/g.m-².d-¹ b Corrosion T/K PH +b/mV- decade-¹ -b/mV- decade-¹ icorr /µA.cm-² Ecorr/mV- 1.39 1.03 10 1 248.95 116.5 127.51 1361.3 298 12 2.18 1.62 10 1 241.9 92.3 200 1362 303 3.16 2.3 10 1 263 78 290.21 1373 308 3.74 2.77 10 1 451.9 82 343.94 1380 313 𝐴𝑙 𝑂𝐻 𝑂𝐻 → 𝐴𝑙 𝑂𝐻   20   Ibn Al-Haitham Jour. for Pure & Appl.Sci. IHJPAS https://doi.org/10.30526/32.1.1983 Vol. 32 (1) 2019 Current density/ 𝛍𝐀. 𝐜𝐦 𝟐 Figure 1. Polarization curves of aluminum alloy 6061 in KOH with 0.6 mol.dm-3 NaCl solution . 3.2 Effect of Temperature The effect of temperature on the corrosion rate of aluminum alloy (6061) expressed by 𝑖 ,was studied by measuring the corrosion at the temperature range of (293-308) K which followed Arrhenius equation [20]. 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑟 ≡ 𝑖 𝐴 𝑒𝑥𝑝 (4) 𝑙𝑛 𝑖 ≡ ln 𝐴 (5) WhereE and A are respectively the activation energy and pre-exponential factor of corrosion reaction. A typical linear plot relating values of ln i to the reciprocal of temperature . The values of E could be derived from the slope of the line, and when the linear plot was extrapolated to ln i value at 0, the value of A could be obtained. Table 3. represents the values of ∆S∗, E and the pre-exponential factor A for aluminum sample in pH 12 . ∆S∗ was computed using equation (6) 𝐴 𝑘𝑇 ℎ exp ∆𝑆∗ 𝑅 (6) Where h is Plank constant, k is boltzman constant, R is the universal gas constant and T the asbsolute temperature of the solution [21]. The values of ∆S∗ were calculated and listed in Table 3. The negative values of ∆S∗ reflect that the activated complex in r.d.s represents association rather than dissociation, this means that the activated molecules. Figure 2.Shows the typical polarization curves of aluminums alloy 6061 in 0.6mol dm NaCl solution containing three different concentrations of gallic acid as a green inhibitor over the temperature range (298-313)K. Table 4 presents the polarization data E and i which shows that there is adecrease in corrosion current densities of aluminium alloy(6061)due the addition of gallic acid. The inhibition effect of gallic acid increases as the concentration of the inhibitor increases in the range 3 10 9 10 mol dm at all temperatures ofstudy as shown in Table 5. The values of inhibition efficiencies IE% : ‐1600 ‐1550 ‐1500 ‐1450 ‐1400 ‐1350 ‐1300 ‐1250 ‐1200 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 P o te n ti a l/ m V  v s. S C E 298 303 308 313   21   Ibn Al-Haitham Jour. for Pure & Appl.Sci. IHJPAS https://doi.org/10.30526/32.1.1983 Vol. 32 (1) 2019 IE% ≡ 100% (7) Where i and i are corrosion current densities in absence and presence of the inhibitor respectively. Table 3. Activation energy E ,pre-exponential factor A and entropy of activation ∆S∗ for the corrosion of Aluminum alloy 6061 in the pH = 12 in 0.6mol. dm NaCL solution Gallic. Conc. of Gallic acid 𝒎𝒐𝒍. 𝒅𝒎 𝟑 𝑬𝒂 𝒌𝑱. 𝒎𝒐𝒍 𝟏⁄ ∆𝑺∗𝑱. 𝑲 𝟏. 𝒎𝒐𝒍 𝟏 A/molecule 𝒎 𝟐. 𝑺 𝟏 Blank 50.99 36.746 7.0103 10 34 3 10 94 89 300.061039 6 10 97.8 95.7 600.6021039 9 10 99.7 100 1000.131039 Table 4. Values of E , i with different concentrations of Gallic acid at temperature range (298-313) K in pH 12 T/K Inhibitor 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜. 𝐦𝐨𝐥. 𝐝𝐦 𝟑 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫 𝐦𝐯⁄ 𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫 𝛍𝐀. 𝐜𝐦 𝟐⁄ 298 0 3 10 1163 9.71 6 10 1176.2 5.84 9 10 1067 4.55 303 0 3 10 1292.3 21.51 6 10 1318.9 13.79 9 10 1281.7 11.12 308 0 3 10 1295 56.96 6 10 1348.8 42 9 10 1374.2 40.83 313 0 3 10 667.1 96.05 6 10 1388.2 94.35 9 10 652.4 81.41   22   Ibn Al-Haitham Jour. for Pure & Appl.Sci. IHJPAS https://doi.org/10.30526/32.1.1983 Vol. 32 (1) 2019 Table 5. Values of inhibitor efficiencies (IE%) calculated from i . For Aluminum alloy 6061 in pH 12. Conc. of Gallic acid T/K IE% from 𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫. 3 10 298 92 303 89 308 80 313 72 6 10 298 95 303 93 308 85.5 313 73 9 10 298 96 303 94 308 86 313 76   3 10 mol dm 6 10 mol dm 9 10 mol dm Figure 2.The typical polarization curves of aluminum alloy 6061 in solution containing of Gallic acid as inhibitor (a= 310-5, b = 610-5, c =910-5 mol.dm-3) over the temperature rang (298-313)K. PH=12 with (0.6 mol.dm-3) NaCl. 3.3 Adsorption Isotherm In order to understand the electrochemical process of adsorption of inhibitor molecules on the metal surface, it is necessary to study the adsorption isotherms. The adsorption isotherm fitted the experimental data for adsorption of gallic acid molecules on aluminum 6061 surface is due to Langmuir isotherm Figure 3. which is given by the following equation [22]. ‐1000 ‐800 ‐600 ‐400 9E‐05 0.009 0.9 P o te n ti a l/ m V v s. S C E Current density/ 𝛍𝐀.𝐜𝐦−𝟐 298 303 308 313 ‐1000 ‐900 ‐800 ‐700 ‐600 ‐500 ‐400 ‐300 ‐200 0.0001 0.001 0.01 P o te n ti a l/ m V v s. S C E Current density/ 𝛍𝐀.𝐜𝐦−𝟐 298 303 308 313 ‐1700 ‐1600 ‐1500 ‐1400 ‐1300 ‐1200 ‐1100 ‐1000 ‐900 ‐800 ‐700 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 P o te n ti a l/ m V v s. S C E Current density/ 𝛍𝐀.𝐜𝐦−𝟐 298 303 308 313   23   Ibn Al-Haitham Jour. for Pure & Appl.Sci. IHJPAS https://doi.org/10.30526/32.1.1983 Vol. 32 (1) 2019 . C . (8) Where k is the equilibrium constant for the adsorption , and Cgal gallic acid concentration. Kads were calculated from the intercepts of the straight lies on the C . θ⁄ axis Figure 3. k relate to the standard free energy of adsorption ∆G according to the equation. ∆G RTln 55.5 k (9) Where 55.5 is concentration of water in solution. The standard free energy of adsorption was calculated. Generally, the standard free energy of adsorption values 20kJ. mol or less negative are associated with an electrostatic interaction between charged metal surface or more negative involves charge sharing or transfer from the inhibitor molecules to the metal surface to form a coordinate covalent bond. So it can be concluded that adsorption of gallic on to aluminum 6061 surface takes place through physical adsorption [22]. From Table 6. it was clearly seen that gallic acid decrease the corrosion rate of aluminums in KOH solution E shifts to little more negative values in the presence of gallic acid. This result indicates that the inhibitors have been adsorbed to both cathodic and anodic areas. That mean acid gallic a is mixed type inhibitor. The same results have been reported by other authors [23, 24]. On basis of Van’t Hoff relation, the values of standard enthalpy of adsorption can be calculated: ln K ∆ constant (10) The slope of straight line of the plot of ln k vs. 1 T⁄ is ∆ as show in Figure 4. and Table7. Generally, endothermic adsorption process is suggesting chemisorption while exothermic process attributed to either physisorption or chemisorption. Negative sign of ∆H shows that adsorption of tannin molecules is exothermic process [25]. Table 6. Corrosion parameter, surface coverage and corrosion inhibition efficiency for Aluminum (6061) in 0.6mol. dm NaCL solution in pH 12 with different concentrations of Gallic at various temperature. T/K 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜.Gal.. 𝐦𝐨𝐥. 𝐝𝐦 𝟑 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫 𝐦𝐯⁄ 𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫 𝛍𝐀. 𝐜𝐦 𝟐⁄ 𝛉 IE% 298 0 1361.3 127.51 3 10 1163 9.71 0.92 92 6 10 1176.2 5.84 0.95 95 9 10 1067 4.55 0.96 96 303 0 1362 200 3 10 1292.3 21.51 0.89 89 6 10 1318.9 13.79 0.93 93 9 10 1281.7 11.12 0.94 94 308 0 1373 290.21 3 10 1295 56.96 0.80 80 6 10 1348.8 42 0.855 85.5 9 10 1374.2 40.83 0.86 86 313 0 1380 343.94 3 10 667.1 96.05 0.72 72 6 10 1388.2 94.35 0.73 73 9 10 652.4 81.41 0.76 76   24   Ibn Al-Haitham Jour. for Pure & Appl.Sci. IHJPAS https://doi.org/10.30526/32.1.1983 Vol. 32 (1) 2019 Table 7. Thermodynamic parameters for adsorption of gallic acid on aluminum inKOH+NaCl. T/K 𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐥 𝟏 ∆𝐆𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝟎 𝐤𝐉. 𝐦𝐨𝐥 𝟏 ∆𝐇𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝟎 𝐤𝐉. 𝐦𝐨𝐥 𝟏 -∆𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝟎 𝐉. 𝐦𝐨𝐥 𝟏. 𝐊 𝟏 298 0.937 9.791 -48.56 -0.1301 303 0.612 8.882 -0.1309 308 0.389 7.882 -0.1321 313 0.303 7.345 -0.1317 Figure 3. Langmuir adsorption plots of gallic acid on the Al Alloy (6061) in 0.6 mol.dm-3 NaCl solution at various temperatures. Figure 4. Van't Hoff plot for aluminum alloy 6061 at pH=12 in 0.6 mol. dm NaCl containing Gallic. 3.4 Optical Microscopy Observation: To study the effect of gallic acid on the surface morphology of aluminum alloy 6061, surface out examined by optical microscope technique. Figure 5. Figure 5-a polished aluminium alloy 6061 surface ,b) 6061 surface immersed in KOH+ NaCl the specimen surface was strongly damaged, c) in presence of gallic acid (9 10 mol. dm-3) shows that there was much less damage on the surface compared to the surface treated with uninhibited potassium hydroxid solution. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 0 2 4 6 8 10 ∂ C / C Linear (298) Linear (303) Linear (308) Linear (313) ‐2 ‐1.8 ‐1.6 ‐1.4 ‐1.2 ‐1 ‐0.8 ‐0.6 ‐0.4 ‐0.2 0 0.00315 0.0032 0.00325 0.0033 0.00335 0.0034 Ln  K Linear (PH=12) )1-1/T (K   25   Ibn Al-Haitham Jour. for Pure & Appl.Sci. IHJPAS https://doi.org/10.30526/32.1.1983 Vol. 32 (1) 2019               a. 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