- Title
- Effect of water nutrient pollution on long-term corrosion of 90:10 copper nickel alloy
- Creator
- Melchers, Robert E.
- Relation
- Funding BodyARCGrant NumberDP140103388 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140103388
- Relation
- Materials Vol. 8, Issue 12, p. 8047-8058
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma8125443
- Publisher
- MDPIAG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Due to their good corrosion resistance, copper and copper alloys such as 90:10 Cu-Ni are used extensively in high-quality marine and industrial piping systems and also in marine, urban, and industrial environments. Their corrosion loss and pitting behaviour tends to follow a bi-modal trend rather than the classic power law. Field data for 90:10 copper nickel immersed in natural seawater are used to explore the effect of water pollution and in particular the availability of critical nutrients for microbiologically induced corrosion. It is shown, qualitatively, that increased dissolved inorganic nitrogen increases corrosion predominantly in the second, long-term, mode of the model. Other, less pronounced, influences are salinity and dissolved oxygen concentration.
- Subject
- long-term corrosion; copper alloys; Cu-Ni; bi-modal; microbiologically-influenced corrosion (MIC)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1317060
- Identifier
- uon:23323
- Identifier
- ISSN:1996-1944
- Rights
- Copyright © 2015 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).
- Language
- eng
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