8779 Corrosion of 1010 Steel Exposed to Level 3 Mixed Flowing Gas

Tuesday, March 24, 2009: 4:05 PM
C205 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Garfias Luis , DNV/CCT, Dublin, OH
Michael Reid , University of Limerick, Stokes Institute, Limerick, Ireland
Brian E. Shannon , Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
This paper describes the corrosion investigation on 1010 steel coupons exposed to a corrosive mixed flowing gas environment that simulated accelerated corrosion in atmospheric conditions.
The specimens examined in this study were commercially available 1010 coupons exposed up to 20 days to the mixed flowing gas level III (MFG-3) environment consisting of 100ppb H2S, 200ppb SO2; 200ppb NO2; 20ppb Cl2; 30°C and 70% relative humidity.
The samples were characterized after exposure by using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), focused ion beam (FIB), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).