Synergistic effect of acetic acid and NOX for objects made of lead and its alloys; indoor corrosive environments in museums and depositories

Majtás, D.; Mácová, P.; Adámková, I.; Viani, A.

doi:10.2478/kom-2022-0016

Abstract

Complex corrosion simulation to evaluate synergistic effect have to cover large number of factors. To do so, environmental and corrosion datasets collected by monitoring sites of interest have been used to tailor complex artificial ageing of lead and lead alloys, using lead, tin and tin-lead coupons. Material composition was based on objects of interest which are tin-lead alloy based although naming lead objects is used widespread for vast of them. To evaluate results corrosion rate based on weight loss, phase composition of corrosion product and colour change of the coupon surface were utilized. For thin corrosion layers formed micro Raman and FTIR did not provide suitable results, and GIXRD have been used.

Although limited number of conditions were used for the simulations, synergistic effect was observed for lead under specific conditions. Synergistic effect do occur on lead when exposed to NOX and acetic acid fumes of relatively low concentrations (18 µg·m-3 and 500 ppb respectively).

In addition, there is grouping of colourimetric data collected according to test regimes – phase composition of corrosion product respectively. This information albeit preliminary suggests that colourimetric spectroscopy may be suitable as fast and easy corrosion monitoring.

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Synergistic effect of acetic acid and NOX for objects made of lead and its alloys; indoor corrosive environments in museums and depositories

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