Evaluation of chromate-phosphate mixtures as corrosion inhibitors under distillation desalination conditions has been done under conditions ranging from small laboratory tests to small pilot units producing fresh water from seawater at rates up to 3,000 gallons per day of fresh water. These results of this testing have been reported in Office of Saline Water reports and presented to various NACE meetings(1). Most of the work with the inhibitor was directed at mild steel but considerably more of the later work has included work on copper alloys. This paper will briefly review the earlier results obtained on copper alloys and present new data obtained in a short test in a large desalination plant and much longer term data in one of the pilot units at decreased inhibitor concentration levels.

Subject
Water, Electrochemical corrosion, Materials, Corrosion rate, Heaters, Seawater, Copper alloys, Corrosion inhibitors, Steel, Brines, Corrosion probes, Desalination, Dissolved oxygen
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1974
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