---

Application of expired drugs in corrosion inhibition of mild steel

Full Text PDF

---

Original Article

Author Details : Neeraj Kumar Gupta, CSA Gopal, Vandana Srivastava, MA Quraishi

Volume : 4, Issue : 1, Year : 2017

Article Page : 8-12

Suggest article by email

Get Permission

Abstract

Present work deals with the investigation of corrosion inhibition of mild steel using two expired drugs namely Atenolol and Nifedipine in 1 M HCl solution. Their inhibition properties were evaluated using electrochemical, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and DFT methods. Atenelol and Nifidipine showed efficiency of 91.30 and 93.91% at low concentration of 200 ppm respectively. Polarization study reveals that the expired drugs inhibit corrosion of mild steel by suppressing both anodic and cathodic reactions occurring on the mild steel surface thus acting as mixed type inhibitors. EIS study shows that the investigated drug increases the polarization resistance by adsorbing on the metal/electrolyte interface. The electrochemical results were well supported by SEM as well as DFT study.

Keywords: Expired Drugs, Mild steel, Acid corrosion, SEM, DFT

How to cite : Gupta N K, Gopal C, Srivastava V, Quraishi M, Application of expired drugs in corrosion inhibition of mild steel. Int J Pharm Chem Anal 2017;4(1):8-12

This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.