Research Article

Sodium Citrate as an Environmentally Friendly Corrosion Inhibitor of Steel in a Neutral Environment

Table 2

Electrochemical characteristics of steel 09G2S after exposure to 0.1% NaCl solution with different concentrations of sodium citrate.

(g/l)Exposure time
3 hours24 hours
(V) (mA/cm2) (V) (mA/cm2)

0-0.55-0.67
0.5-0.51-0.64
1.0-0.53-0.63
1.5-0.43-0.65
2-0.43-0.62
2.5-0.50-0.56
3.0-0.53-0.66