ANTICORROSION EFFECT OF NATURAL MATERIAL ON MILD STEEL
E. KOWSALYA *
Department of Industrial Biotechnology, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, 173, Agaram Road, Selaiyur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
S. SHARMILA
Department of Industrial Biotechnology, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, 173, Agaram Road, Selaiyur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
L. JEYANTHI REBECCA
Department of Industrial Biotechnology, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, 173, Agaram Road, Selaiyur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Mild Steel(MS) was widely used in construction and metal structures industries but in chemical processing industries releasing more acidic fumes creating environment which will corrode the mild steel .there are so many synthetic metal coatings are available apart from in the great interest of green environment in all aspects the work was carried out to use Aloevera gel extract as a corrosion inhibitor the study was carried out by creating Acidic environment at different concentration and the measured metal piece of MS was immersed in a solution and the corrosion rate and effect of reduction in corrosion of MS level was analyzed by the addition of Aloevera Extract as 1ml (E1),5 ml(E2),10ml(E3) with the condition No extract(N) addition to the two Acidic environment. In 10M Hcl medium addition of 10ml Aloevera results maximum of 97% reduction level of metal dissociation.formulation of aloevera gel as a coating will improve its applicability.
Keywords: Acidic environment, Aloe vera, coatings, extract, mild steel, corrosion, metal dissociation