1 School of Materials and Chemistry, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China 2 Frontier Research Initiative, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan ...

Although American Electric Power (AEP) successfully uses weathering-steel poles on its system, one of its 20-year-old pole lines was showing signs of severe corrosion the utility had to address.

Burning methanol produces formic acid, which can cause steel corrosion at temperatures below the dew point of the exhaust gas. Because of the potential of methanol as an alternate automotive fuel, it ...

The corrosion rates of mild steel decreased as buffer capacity was increased with pH at constant alkalinity. The corrosion-promoting effect of ionic strength, however, appeared to predominate over the ...