Abstract
The influence of water quality factors such as silica (SiO2) and chloride ion (Cl-) on a stability index of water and corrosion rate of steel was investigated in a solution with polyacrylic acid (PAA) as a corrosion inhibitor. In corrosion weight loss tests, the corrosion rate in PAA additive system decreased in comparison with that in PAA non-additive system as reported in previous paper and was dependent on [SiO2] and [Cl-]. In solutions with SiO2 and Cl- of PAA additive system, the corrosive property become weak as the stability index was smaller. In numerical value analysis, SiO2 had an ability of corrosion inhibition in PAA additive system as well as non-additive one, and then, tended to change the stability index at chemical equilibrium state. The influence of Cl- in solutions with SiO2 of PAA additive system differed from that of non-additive system : The corrosion rate was affected by Cl- and the stability index was not.