Effect of Quenching and Tempering on Corrosion of Low Carbon Steel in Acid Environment

Authors

  • I. Aliyu  Metallurgical Engineering Department, Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi
  • T. Shehu  Metallurgical Engineering Department, Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi
  • M. Abdulkadir  Metallurgical Engineering Department, Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi

Keywords:

Heat Treatment, Corrosion Rate, Low Carbon Steel, Hydrochloric Acid

Abstract

The degradation of infrastructures particularly in salt and acid environment has continued to generate a lot of worries to researchers in this noble area which necessitate investigation of quenching and tempering on corrosion rate of low carbon steel in 1M HCl acid solution using conventional weight loss method in view to procure lasting solution to the problem. A total number of twenty (20) samples were heat treated at a temperature of 950OC for a period of 2 hours with five (5) samples left untreated which serve as control. Ten (10) each of heat treated samples were quenched in water and engine oil after soaking and five (5) samples each of water quenched and oil quenched were further tempered to a temperature of 450OC for 1 hour. The untreated, quenched and tempered samples were immersed in 1M HCl acid solution for a period of 1 to 5 days. The weight loss was recorded, corrosion rate was determined and the result revealed that corresponding quenched samples resulted in higher corrosion rate than the untreated and tempered samples while the tempered samples reduce corrosion susceptibility.

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2018-02-28

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I. Aliyu, T. Shehu, M. Abdulkadir, " Effect of Quenching and Tempering on Corrosion of Low Carbon Steel in Acid Environment, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp.1545-1549, January-February-2018.