Predicting the effect of droplet geometry and size distribution on atmospheric corrosion

A new approach is proposed to numerically predict and study atmospheric corrosion for ranging droplet size distributions and the influence of the droplet geometry. The proposed methodology allows for a corrosion prediction based on observed droplet size distributions and droplet contact angles. A mechanistic finite element model, including oxygen transport and Butler-Volmer kinetics, is solved in order to obtain the current density as a function of the droplet geometry. This is done for a range of both droplet radii and contact angles. The computed corrosion current densities are then used as input for imposed droplet size distributions. This allows for a calculated material loss estimation for different distributions and electrolyte configurations and shows the extent of the impact of the droplet size distribution on atmospheric corrosion.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Team Yaiza Gonzalez GarciaTeam Arjan Mo

Preliminary results of corrosion monitoring studies of carbon steel overpack exposed to supercontainer concrete buffer

The supercontainer (SC) is the reference concept for the postconditioning of vitrified high level radioactive waste and spent fuel in Belgium. It is designed with a concrete buffer completely surrounding a carbon steel overpack. A half-scale (HST-2) experiment was set up to measure the instantaneous uniform corrosion rate, representative of the initial oxic phase, in situ. The test setup has the same diameter as a full size SC, but it is limited in height to approximately half of a real SC. The corrosion rate of carbon steel is measured in four ways: weight loss measurements (carbon steel coupons), corrosion sensor based on linear polarisation resistance, corrosion sensor based on multisine electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and corrosion sensor based on single sine electrochemical impedance spectroscopy coupled to a unique analytical method. This paper presents the preliminary results of the corrosion rates measured with these independent methods.Fil: Kursten, B.. SCK•CEN; BélgicaFil: Druyts, F.. SCK•CEN; BélgicaFil: Areias, L.. SCK•CEN; BélgicaFil: Ingelgem, Y. van. Vrije Unviversiteit Brussel; BélgicaFil: De Wilde, D.. Vrije Unviversiteit Brussel; BélgicaFil: G. Nieubourg. Vrije Unviversiteit Brussel; BélgicaFil: Duffó, Gustavo Sergio. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia del Área de Energía Nuclear. Unidad de Actividad de Materiales (CAC); Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Bataillon, C.. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique. Laboratoire d’Etude de la Corrosion Aqueuse; Franci