Electrochemical performance of 2-meracaptobenzothiazole on the corrosion inhibition of selected metallic alloys in dilute acid media

Abstract

Abstract The inhibition performance of 2-meracaptobenzothiazole on the corrosion of 316 austenitic stainless steel in 3M HCl, mild steel in 1M HCl and 1060 aluminium alloy in 2M H2SO4 solution alloy was studied by coupon measurement. Results showed the compound performed more effectively on the 316 steel with average corrosion inhibition performance result of 90% followed by the aluminium alloy with average inhibition performance value of 70%. 2-meracaptobenzothiazole performed poorly on mild steel with average inhibition performance results of 55% at low concentration and results below 0% and high inhibitor concentrations. Statistical data through showed that inhibitor concentration only influenced the inhibition performance of 2-meracaptobenzothiazole. Inhibitor concentration and exposure time were statistically relevant to the inhibition performance of 2-mercaptobenzothiazole on mild steel at varying degrees while both inhibitor concentration were statistically irrelevant to the inhibition performance of 2-meracaptobenzothiazole on 1060 aluminium alloy. Adsorption isotherm studies showed SD adsorption on the metallic alloys aligned with Langmuir, Frumkin and Freudlich adsorption with general correlation coefficient above 0.9991.