Stainless steels can be cathodically protected using energy stored at the marine sediment/seawater interface

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 6473-6478

  Orfei, Leda H ^a   Simison, Silvia ^a   Busalmen, Juan Pablo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POLARIZATION; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; STAINLESS STEEL;

CATHODIC PROTECTION SYSTEMS; MARINE SEDIMENTS; SATURATED CALOMEL ELECTRODE (SCE);

CORROSION PROTECTION;

GRAPHITE; SEA WATER; STAINLESS STEEL; SULFUR;

CATHODES; CORROSION PROTECTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POLARIZATION; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; STAINLESS STEEL;

BIOFILM; CORROSION; ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MARINE SEDIMENT; POLARIZATION; SEAWATER; STEEL;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CORROSION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LABORATORY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; POTENTIOMETRY; REDUCTION; SATURATED CALOMEL ELECTRODE; SEDIMENT;

BIOFILMS; CORROSION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; SEAWATER; STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 33750346749     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060912m     Document Type: Article

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