Comparative study on corrosion effect of two essential oils on the mild steel in 1M HCl acid medium

Abstract

In this paper, we compared the corrosion inhibiting effect of two essential oils on mild steel in 1 M HCl.The essential oils are extracted from natural plants harvested in Morocco and prepared through distillation.To carry out this work, we used gravimetric and electrochemical methods, including current-potential plots and impedance spectroscopy.The results obtained show that both essential oils are a good corrosion inhibitor and that the inhibition efficiency of wormwood essential oil reaches a value of more than 80 % at 298 K. To learn the fundamentals of how inhibitors interact with metal surfaces, wormwood essential oil adsorption on a mild steel surface was also investigated.The Langmuir isotherm model is revealed to be how the essential oils adsorb on the metal surface.The effect of temperature on the performance of mild steel in 1 M HCl with wormwood essential oil was examined in the temperature range of 313 to 353 K. Additionally, calculations and discussions are made to provide some thermodynamic data for the adsorption processes.This work enters the framework for the use of non-toxic products in green chemistry.