A series of highly-alloyed austenitic stainless steels has been exposed in a model heat exchanger cooled with water from a brackish inlet in southeast Florida. The behavior of the alloys has been found to depend significantly on the formation of adherent surface deposits. These deposits may occur under certain conditions when natural seawater is used, but the use of chlorination has been found invariably to produce significant deposits, beneath which even the more highly alloyed tubing suffered considerable localized corrosion. It is suggested from noise analysis of the electrochemical potential of individual electrically isolated tubes that the noise analysis might be appropriate as an on-line corrosion monitoring technique for complete heat exchangers, as an alternative to the use of independent monitoring probes.

Subject
Pits, Water, Materials, Electrochemical noise, Tubes, Chlorination, Seawater, Scale formation, Pitting, Chlorine, Deposit corrosion, Localized corrosion, Steam
Keywords:
stainless steel, chlorinated seawater, localised corrosion, electrochemical noise
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1994
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