Nano ferrites as corrosion inhibitors for carbon steel in local Iraqi bentonite mud

Abstract EN

Corrosion processes are accountable for serious losses in the oil industry.

Although organic and inorganic materials and mixed materials inhibitors have been used for a long time to control or reduce corrosion.

Using nano-materials as inhibitors has gained an increasing applications role because of their exceptional properties.

Nano materials are good corrosion inhibitors because they possess many advantages such as high efficiency of inhibition, low cost, minimum toxicity and effortless production.

This work examines the use of nano-materials as inhibitors to prevent corrosion of carbon steel in drilling mud.

Anti-corrosion properties of zinc and nickel ferrite nano materials (ZnFe2O4, Zn0.6Ni0.4Fe2O4) have been investigated over carbon steel in local Iraqi bentonite mud as a source of the corrosion.

It has been found that under the given conditions, ferrites act as efficient corrosion inhibitors of carbon steel.