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Nicotine as Corrosion Inhibitor for 1018 Steel in 1M HCl under Turbulent Conditions

Araceli Espinoza-Vázquez, Sergio Garcia-Galan and Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Gómez

An electrochemical impedance technique for determining corrosion inhibition of nicotine in HCl on AISI 1018 steel under concentrations from 0 to 50 ppm found that the organic compound is a better corrosion inhibitor under static conditions. The inhibition efficiency (IE) increased with inhibitor concentration reaching an IE>90%, at 10 ppm. For [nicotine] ≤ 50 ppm, the IE value reached 71%, at 40 rpm, but diminished then to 33% upon changing the working electrode rotation speed to 500 rpm. The thermodynamic analysis showed a process ruled by physisorption according to the Langmuir adsorption model mechanism. Furthermore, the inhibition kinetics study showed that nicotine gave good protection against corrosion up to 72 hours of immersion with IE ≤ 87%. Finally, with increased temperature the IE values diminished from 90% at 25°C to 57% at 70°C, concluding that at high temperatures nicotine is ineffective at inhibition, because the temperature decrease, persistence layer easily desorbs.