According to the literature, the works on the inhibition of aluminum alloy corrosion using naturally occurring compounds are limited. For this, the inhibiting effect of oil mill liquid by-product (OMW) on the corrosion of 3003 aluminum alloy (AA3003) in molar hydrochloric acid solution was evaluated using electrochemical techniques. In parallel, a computational approach based on DFT/B3LYP and Monte Carlo methods was used to understand the inhibition process under electronic and atomic scales, respectively. The experimental results reveal that OMW has a good inhibiting effect on the corrosion of AA3003 alloy in the tested solution and acts as a cathodic inhibitor. The inhibitory efficiency increases by increasing OMW concentration to attain 89% at 6.0 ppm. The effect of temperature shows that the inhibition efficiency of OMW decreases with temperature rising. Nevertheless, a good prevention capacity of 83% is obtained at 338 K. Such interesting achieved protection property was attributed to the adsorption of OMW constituents onto the alloy surface via a mixed physichemisorption process. This process is found to obey the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. Furthermore, the activation thermodynamic parameters of the corrosion process of AA3003 alloy were also determined and discussed. The computational outcomes outlined the ability of the OMW components to interact favorably with the metal surface, hence the formation of a protective layer, which justified the observed inhibition behaviors. Conferring to the present study, OMW can be used as a good green corrosion inhibitor for AA3003 alloy in the acidic medium.

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This paper presents a new study on imidazole derivatives namely 1H-imidazole (IM), N-methylimidazole (MIM) and 1H-benzimidazole (BIM) as a corrosion inhibitor for brass in nitric acid medium. Electrochemical results demonstrate that the inhibition increases with a high concentration of imidazole derivatives; the inhibitory efficiency reaches a maximum of 94% at 10-2 mol L −1 for BIM. SEM morphology and EDS analysis show that these derivatives are adsorbed onto the brass interface, the brass sample is effectively protected and the surface becomes relatively flat, which is more significant in the presence of 1H-benzimidazole. FTIR results confirm the retention of BIM on the interface of Cu-Zn alloys. In addition, quantum chemistry calculation manifests that the three derivatives can reveal high anticorrosion properties. Molecular dynamics simulation data manifest that the three imidazole derivatives can be adsorbed at the brass surface in a paralleled way, and have large binding energy. Highlights. A new action of imidazole derivatives to mitigate brass corrosion was explored in HNO 3 .. BIM showed inhibitory efficiency more than 94% in HNO 3 solution.. The inhibition mechanism is studied using SEM/EDS surface analysis and FTIR analysis.. The calculated adsorption energies are ranked in the following order: BIM > MIM > IM.. Theoretical and experimental results lead to used imidazole derivatives as potential corrosion inhibition for brass in HNO 3 solution.

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