Avaliação de complexos de inclusão na inibição do aço carbono em meio ácido

Abstract

The oil and gas industry presents serious corrosion problems. In the petrochemical and oil refining plants, the flaws in materials is related to corrosion, in addition, metal etching processes are problems in the world, causing burdens on manufacturing processes and resulting hazards such as corrosion of metal pillars on bridges or aircraft bodies. Among the corrosive media, a very common is the acidic, which will be the medium studied in this work. With all these problems, it is necessary to study corrosion inhibitors with high efficiency, stability and, preferably, that is environmentally benign.. Some corrosion inhibitors have limited solubility in water, necessitating the use of organic solvents Then, it was proposed the use of an inclusion complex for making possible to dissolve conventional inhibitors in aqueous solution, as some thiourea, which have such limited solubility in water. The complete dissolution of organic corrosion inhibitor in aqueous media would be possible with the use of an additive (host) capable of encapsulating such molecules (guests) via non-covalent interactions in order to reach the maximum inhibition performance. To form the inclusion complex it was used as the host, the α and β hydroxypropyl-cyclodextrin and as the guest to dibenziltioureia. The intention was to test the improvement of the inhibitory performance of carbon steel corrosion in HCl medium 1molL-1 with mass loss test, impedance, polarization and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and evidence the formation of these inclusion complexes by absorption vibrational infrared spectroscopy, 1 H NMR spectroscopy, spectroscopy of absorption UV and differential thermal analysis (DTA)