“…This kind of chemical ‘dry corrosion’ takes place in alcohols with low water content at temperatures above 80 °C mostly in form of circular corrosion pits and the corrosion reaction is particularly rapid capable of causing component failures in few minutes. Moreover, alcoholate corrosion, due to low electrical conductivity of electrolyte (ethanol), is believed to be a predominantly chemical kind of reaction, which highly depends on physical, chemical and physico‐chemical factors such as: water content, temperature, presence of certain alloying elements in aluminium, ethanol impurities and the (metallic) surface condition
[10–15]. Equations (1–3) give an overview on the involved reactions [16]:
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