Progress In Corrosion Science And Engineering Ii

MODERN ASPECTS OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY No. 47 Series Editors: Ralph E. White Department of Chemical Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 Constantinos G. Vayenas Department of Chemical Engineering University of Patras Patras 265 00 Greece Managing Editor: Maria E. Gamboa-Aldeco 1107 Raymer Lane Superior, CO 80027 For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6251 Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry Topics in Number 45 include: x x x x x The cathodic reduction of nitrate and electrochemical membrane technology Non-haloaluminate ionic liquids The properties of nanowires composed of metals and semiconductors. Ammonium electrolysis as a renewable source of fuel The usefulness of synchrotron x-ray scattering to a wide range of electrode phenomena Topics in Number 46 include: x x x x Structure, passivation and localized corrosion of metal surfaces. Anodic oxide films on aluminum: their significance for corrosion protection and micro- and nano- technologies. Electrochemical, microscopic and surface analytical studies of amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys. Physicochemical characterization of passive films and corrosion layers by differential admittance and photocurrent spectroscopy. Su-II Pyun • Jong-Won Lee Editors Progress in Corrosion Science and Engineering II Editors Su-II Pyun Department of Materials Science and Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Daejeon Republic of Korea [email protected] Jong-Won Lee Fuel Cell Research Center Korea Institute of Energy Research Daejeon Republic of Korea [email protected] ISSN 0076-9924 ISBN 978-1-4419-5577-7 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-5578-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-5578-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009934519 ¤ Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Preface The present volume of Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry is the second in a two-volume set (No. 46 and 47) that covers important technological progress in recent years in the fields of electrochemical corrosion and materials engineering. The first chapter, by Macdonald, discusses electrochemical and corrosion phenomena of metals and alloys in supercritical aqueous media. The author reviews the corrosiveness of supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) media operating at temperatures up to 650 oC and at pressures of several hundred bars and the technical issues that need to b