Corrosion Resistance Characteristics and Application of Titanium and Titanium Alloy Special Metal Materials

(Corrosion Resistance Characteristics and Application of Titanium and Titanium Alloy Special Metal Materials)

Corrosion resistance characteristics of titanium

Titanium is a metal with a strong tendency to passivation. It can quickly
form a stable oxidizing protective film in the air and in an oxidizing or
neutral aqueous solution. Even if the film is damaged for some reason, it can
quickly and automatically recover. Therefore, titanium has excellent corrosion
resistance in oxidizing and neutral media.

Due to the great passivation performance of titanium, in many cases, when it
comes in contact with dissimilar metals, it does not accelerate the corrosion,
but may accelerate the corrosion of dissimilar metals. For example, in a
low-concentration non-oxidizing acid, if Pb, Sn, Cu or Monel alloy is contacted
with titanium to form a galvanic couple, these materials will corrode faster,
and titanium will not be affected. In hydrochloric acid, when titanium is in
contact with low-carbon steel, new hydrogen is generated on the surface of
titanium, which destroys the oxide film of titanium, which not only causes
hydrogen embrittlement of titanium, but also accelerates the corrosion of
titanium. This may be due to the high degree of hydrogen on titanium.

The iron content in titanium has an impact on the corrosion resistance of
some media. The reason for the increase in iron is that in addition to the raw
materials, it is often that the contaminated iron penetrates into the weld bead
during welding, which increases the local iron content in the weld bead. Time
corrosion has a non-uniform nature. When using iron to support titanium
equipment, iron contamination on the iron-titanium contact surface is almost
unavoidable and accelerated in the iron-contaminated area, especially in the
presence of hydrogen. When the titanium oxide film on the contaminated surface
is mechanically damaged, hydrogen will penetrate into the metal. According to
conditions such as temperature and pressure, hydrogen will diffuse
correspondingly, which will cause different degrees of hydrogen embrittlement of
titanium. Therefore, titanium should be used in medium temperature and medium
pressure and hydrogen-containing systems to avoid surface iron
contamination.

Under normal circumstances, titanium does not undergo pitting corrosion.
Titanium also has anti-corrosion fatigue stability.

Titanium has better crevice corrosion resistance, especially Ti-0.3Mo-0.8Ni
and Ti-0.2Pd alloys. Therefore, Ti-0.3Mo-0.8Ni and Ti-0.2Pd alloys are widely
used as sealing surface materials for container equipment to solve Crevice
corrosion on the sealing surface of the equipment.

Application of Titanium

Due to the excellent corrosion resistance of titanium materials, titanium
materials are widely used in petroleum, chemical industry, salt making,
pharmaceuticals, metallurgy, electronics, aviation, aerospace, marine and other
related fields.

Titanium has excellent corrosion resistance to most salt solutions. For
example, titanium is more corrosion-resistant than high-chromium-nickel steel in
chloride solutions and has no pitting corrosion. However, the corrosion rate is
higher in aluminum trichloride, which is related to the production of
concentrated hydrochloric acid after the hydrolysis of aluminum trichloride.
Titanium also has good stability to hot sodium chlorite and various
concentrations of hypochlorite. Therefore, titanium materials are widely used in
vacuum salt production and bleaching powder industry.

Titanium has good corrosion resistance to most alkaline solutions. Titanium
is relatively stable in sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide solutions with
a concentration of less than 50%. If the alkali solution contains chloride ions
or chlorides, its corrosion resistance even exceeds that of nickel and
zirconium. But when the temperature and concentration increase, the corrosion
will increase. At present, the chlor-alkali industry is the largest application
field of domestic civilian titanium materials.

Titanium is not resistant to corrosion in dry chlorine and has the risk of
fire, but it has high stability in wet chlorine, exceeding zirconium, Hastelloy
C and Monel, and even in sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid
saturated with chlorine. It is also stable in media such as chloride, so
titanium is the material of choice for key equipment for the production of
titanium dioxide by sulfuric acid. Because titanium has good corrosion
resistance in hydrocarbons, it is also good even when it contains acid and
chloride impurities. Therefore, titanium materials are also widely used in
organic chemicals, such as PTA (purified terephthalic acid), PVA (vinylon) and
so on.

Titanium materials have excellent corrosion resistance in seawater, so
titanium materials are also widely used in marine fields such as offshore oil
drilling platforms and seawater desalination.

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