Corrosion and Cavitation Erosion Behaviours of Cast Nickel Aluminium Bronze in 3.5％ NaCl Solution with Different Sulphide Concentrations

• 来源期刊: 金属学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（12）
• 页码范围: 1470-1482
• 页数: 13页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The effect of sulphide (Na2S) concentration (SC) on the corrosion and cavitation erosion behaviours of a cast nickel aluminium bronze (NAB) in 3.5％ NaC1 solution is investigated in this study.The results show that when the SC exceeds 50 ppm,the hydrogen evolution reaction dominates the cathodic process,and a limiting current region appears in the anodic branch of the polarisation curve due to the formation of a copper sulphide film,which is a diffusion-controlled process.After longterm immersion,the increased mass loss rate of NAB with the sulphide additions of 20 and 50 ppm is attributed to the less protective films,which contains a mixture of copper oxides and sulphides.Moreover,NAB undergoes severe localised corrosion (selective phase corrosion,SPC) at the β'phases and eutectoid microstructure α + κⅢ.By comparison,NAB undergoes general corrosion and a copper sulphide film is formed in 100 and 200 ppm sulphide solutions.Cavitation erosion greatly increases the corrosion rate of NAB in all solutions and causes a negative potential shift in 3.5％ NaC1 solution due to the film destruction.However,a positive potential shift occurs in the solutions with SC higher than 50 ppm due to the accelerated mass transfer of the cathodic process.The cavitation erosion mass loss rate of NAB increases with the increase of SC.The occurrence of severe SPC decreases the phase boundary cohesion and causes brittle fracture under the cavitation impact.The corrosion-enhanced erosion is the most predominant factor for the cavitation erosion damage when the SC exceeds 50 ppm.