A Study on Galvanic Current Variation of Zn Sacrificial Anode Made by Including of Additive in Solutions with Various Conductivities

Kyung Man Moon; Myeong Hoon Lee; Tae Sil Baek

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.926.25

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A Study on Galvanic Current Variation of Zn Sacrificial Anode Made by Including of Additive in Solutions with Various Conductivities

Abstract:

There have been two cathodic protection methods to inhibit corrosion of the structural steel piles which are being immerged under seawater, or to control corrosion of a hull part of the ship exposed to sea water. One of them is a sacrificial anode cathodic protection method that the steel pile can be protected with galvanic current by potential difference between sacrificial anode and corrosive structural steel. And, the sacrificial anode cathodic protection method have generally merits compared to impressed current method because it can be easily applied to everywhere which is not connected with electricity. However, when the steel piles are being submerged in low conductivity solution mixed with fresh water and sea water, the structural steel piles mentioned above have not been protected occasionally perfectively due to decreasing of galvanic current of zinc anode caused by deposited with oxide film on the surface of anode. In this study, four types of zinc anodes samples which are included with three types of additives such as NaCl, KCl, and ZnCl₂were prepared, and galvanic currents, the polarization characteristics of these anodes was investigated using electrochemical methods such as polarization curves, impedance, cyclic voltammogtam and galvanic current in order to evaluate the effect of additive affecting to quality of zinc anode. The sample added with NaCl indicated the highest value of galvanic current density compared to other samples in the case of lower and higher conductivity solutions such as 0.32 and 2.97mS respectively, and the sample added with KCl revealed the smallest galvanic current density in middle value of conductivities such as 1.53 and 2.27 mS. Moreover, Zn sample no added with additive exhibited the smallest value of galvanic current density in the lowest conductivities such as 0.32 and 0.98 mS. Therefore, it is considered that the galvanic current of the sacrificial anode can be increased by adding of additive when the anode is submerged in low conductivity solution mixed with fresh water and sea water.

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Kyung Man Moon*, Myeong Hoon Lee, Tae Sil Baek

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Cathodic Protection Method, Corrosion, Galvanostat, Polarization, Potentiostat, Zinc Anode

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