Research Article

The Effect of H2S Pressure on the Formation of Multiple Corrosion Products on 316L Stainless Steel Surface

Table 4

The list of corrosion products from XPS deconvolution of percentage surface atomic concentration for 316L steels in different conditions.

Corrosion productBinding energy (eV)
0 bar pH2S3 bar pH2S

CrO3578.48Nil
Cr2O3577.03Nil
MoNil232.4
MoO2228.85Nil
MoO3232.96226.9
NiONil855.7
Ni(OH)2Nil857.4
NiSNil853.9
FeSNil712.8
Fe3O4Nil710.1