Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research (ISSN : 0975-7384)

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Original Articles: 2015 Vol: 7 Issue: 1

Experimental studies of an antibacterial agent on the corrosion of mild steel in 1M H2SO4

Abstract

Corrosion behavior of mild steel in 1M Sulphuric acid with an anti-bacterial agent, viz., Vancomycin as corrosion inhibitor has been studied by using mass loss, potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and hydrogen permeation studies. All these techniques reveal that inhibition efficiency increases with the increase in the concentration of antibacterial agent. Polarization studies indicated that inhibitor acted as cathodic inhibitor. It was found that the adsorption of green inhibitor on the mild steel surface obeying Langmuir adsorption isotherm.