Anita Marcia Jane

Methods ：
 Prevent the corrosive environment from getting at
the metal
 Use electrochemical principles to prevent
corrosion
A.Method depend on isolating a metal from its
environment
1.Apply a protective layer
 Paint
 coating
 Plastic
 Apply a protective layer
 If oxygen and water can’t get to the metal ， it
won’t corrode.
 Cheapest and most useful way of preventing from
corrosion.
2.Apply a metal which is corrosion resistant to
the surface of original metal.
 Steel
 Alloy of iron
 Steel contains a small amounts of carbon and
various metals.
 Unprotected steel cans are unsuitable use of food,
the steel is plated with a thin layer of tin
 Outermost layers of tin atoms oxidize quickly,
producing a thin tin oxide layer.
 Protective oxide coating adheres strongly to the
underlying tin metal to prevent further corrosion.
 The process of protecting a substance from
unwanted oxidation by connecting it to a
substance having a higher tendency to oxidize.
 (making it the cathode of an electrochemical
cell.)
 if the two metals are put together, the corrosion of
the Mg will oxidize first which prevents
corrosion of the iron.
O2 O2

Fe Fe Mg

 In Cathotic Protection, the metal is surrounded

by another material in order to insure that the
metal will not be oxidized.
Any of these
metals would
work to protect
Iron.
1. Ships
aluminum hulls with steel fixtures
2. Galvanized steel
Zinc coating on steel
 Definition
 A voltage is applied with an external power
supply to keep the Fe slightly negative. Thus, the
Fe surface has excess e- s so it doesn’t have to
oxidize in order to supply e-s to O2
 Metal oxide lose electrons
and become cations,
For example, Fe2+ iron after
the first change into rust.
Plus the current through the
body to be protected (such as
steel) a cathode current to
compensate for the loss of e-
Fe Fe, so that protected the
body (Fe) from corrosion.
 For larger structures, galvanic anodes cannot
deliver economically enough current to provide
complete protection. Impressed current cathodic
protection (ICCP) systems use anodes connected to a
DC power source. Usually this will be a cathodic
protection rectifier, which converts an AC power
supply to a DC output. In the absence of an AC
supply, alternative power sources may be used, such
as solar panels, wind power or gas powered
thermoelectric generators
 When iron is placed in contact with water
containing oxygen, it will oxidize the iron.

 If oxygen is removed from the solution, the

reduction tendency will drop.

 And in order to lower [H+],[OH] should be added.

 So for the iron which placed in NaOH solution

will not rust.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathodic_protection
 http://www.corrosionist.com/Cathodic_Protection
_Sacrificial_Anodes.htm

 http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/basics_of_corro
sion_control.pdf