Effect of Small Amount of O2 and CO on Hydrogen Embrittlement Susceptibility of X52 Pipeline Steel

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Effect of Small Amount of O₂ and CO on Hydrogen Embrittlement Susceptibility of X52 Pipeline Steel

WAN Hongjiang¹^,², MING Hongliang¹^,²(

), WANG Jianqiu¹, HAN En-Hou¹^,³

^1.Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
^2.School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang 110016, China
^3.Institute of Corrosion Science and Technology, Guangzhou 510530, China

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WAN Hongjiang, MING Hongliang, WANG Jianqiu, HAN En-Hou. Effect of Small Amount of O₂ and CO on Hydrogen Embrittlement Susceptibility of X52 Pipeline Steel. Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection, 2025, 45(2): 371-380.

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Abstract

The effect of small injected amount of O₂ and CO on the hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility of X52 pipeline steel in pure gaseous hydrogen was investigated by slow strain rate tensile tests, while the fracture of the tested steel was characterized by scanning electron microscope. Results reveal that the hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility of X52 pipeline steel decreases with the increase of the injected amount of O₂ and CO in the gaseous hydrogen. For the gaseous hydrogen with either 0.01% (volume fraction) O₂ or 0.02% (volume fraction) CO, the acquired hydrogen embrittlement index of X52 pipeline steel is 0.83% and 8.11%, which correspond to 3.96% and 38.66% those in pure gaseous hydrogen, respectively. It follows that the competitive adsorption of O₂ and CO with the presence of H₂ leads to the reduction of hydrogen embrittlement sensitivity of the pipeline steel.

Key words: X52 pipeline steel hydrogen embrittlement O₂ CO competitive adsorption

Received: 21 May 2024 32134.14.1005.4537.2024.159

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Fund: National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFB4001601);Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(2022187)

Corresponding Authors: MING Hongliang, E-mail: hlming12s@imr.ac.cn

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Fig.1 Schematic diagram of dimensions of tubular specimen

Table 1 Tensile test conditions in H₂ gas containing different contents of O₂ and CO

Fig.2 Metallography images of X52 pipeline steel in the planes of TD-RD (a), TD-ND (b) and RD-ND (c), and image position diagram (d)

Fig.3 Stress-strain curves of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmospheres containing different contents of oxygen

Fig.4 Tensile data (a) and HEI (b) of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmospheres with different oxygen contents

Fig.5 Overall fracture morphologies of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmospheres containing 0% (a), 0.001% (b), 0.005% (c), and 0.01% (d) O₂

Fig.6 Fracture morphologies of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmosphere containing 0.001%O₂: (a) overview, (b-d) magnified images of the regions A, B and C marked in Fig.6a, respectively

Fig.7 Fracture morphologies of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmosphere containing 0.005%O₂: (a) overview, (b-d) magnified images of the regions A, B and C marked in Fig.7a, respectively

Fig.8 Fracture morphologies of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmosphere containing 0.01%O₂: (a) overview, (b-d) magnified images of the regions A, B and C marked in Fig.8a, respectively

Fig.9 Stress-strain curves of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmospheres containing different contents of CO

Fig.10 Tensile data (a) and HEI (b) of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmospheres containing different contents of CO

Fig.11 Overall fracture morphologies of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmospheres containing 0% (a), 0.005% (b), 0.01% (c) and 0.02% (d) CO

Fig.12 Fracture morphologies of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmosphere containing 0.005%CO: (a) overview, (b-d) magnified images of the regions A, B, and C marked in Fig.12a, respectively

Fig.13 Fracture morphologies of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmosphere containing 0.01%CO: (a) general view, (b-d) magnified images of the regions A, B, and C marked in Fig.13a, respectively

Fig.14 Fracture morphologies of X52 pipeline steel in H₂ atmosphere containing 0.02%CO: (a) general view, (b-d) magnified images of the regions A, B, and C marked in Fig.14a, respectively

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