The corrosion behaviour and mechanism of superpure austenitic stainless steel00Cr25Ni22Mo2N in urea processing environment was studied using metallography,SEM,TEM,SIMS and AES techniques.The results show that the gas extraction tube made ofnon-sensitized 00Cr25Ni22Mo2N steel suffered intergranular corrosion.Corrosive mediapenetrated not only into the tube wall through grain boundaries but also expanded from theboundary towards the interior of the grain.Neither depletion of Cr nor precipitates were foundat the grain boundaries.However,P(and Si)was segregated at the grain boundaries to a greatextent.Semiquantitative calculation indicates that the P content at the grain boundaries isabout 25 wt-%,three orders of magnitude higher than the content within the grain.Sugges-tion is made that the potential difference between the grain and its boundary due to the segre-gation results in the observed intergranular corrosion.
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