Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Synthesized Compounds as Corrosion Inhibitor for Mild Steel in Hydrochloric Acid Solution
JOURNAL OF DISPERSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Yadav, Mahendra; Kumar, Sushil; Sinha, Rajesh Ranjan; Kumar, Sumit
Abstract
Imidazole derivatives, namely, 1-((1-(piperazinomethyl)-1H-benzoimidazol-2-yl) methyl)-2phenylhydrazine (PBIP), and 1-((1-(morpholinomethyl)-1H-benzoimidazol-2-yl) methyl)-2phenylhydrazine (MBIP) were synthesized and investigated as inhibitors for mild steel corrosion in 15% HCl solution using weight loss, potentiodynamic polarization, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) techniques. It was found that the inhibition efficiency of both the inhibitors increases with increase in concentration of inhibitors and decreases with increase in temperature. The inhibitors, PBIP and MBIP, show corrosion inhibition efficiency of 92.6% and 91.4% at 300 ppm concentration, respectively, at 303 K. Polarization studies showed that both the studied inhibitors were of mixed type in nature. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were performed for surface study of uninhibited and inhibited mild steel samples. The semi-empirical AM1 method was employed for theoretical calculations.
Multi-Binomial mixes: A proposal for secure and efficient anonymous communication
COMPUTER NETWORKS
Authors: Madani, Shaahin; Khalil, Ibrahim
Abstract
Mix systems have long been used to provide communication privacy and among them the Binomial mix is one of the most sophisticated and reliable designs. We propose two new mix designs based on the Binomial mix which can host not one but multiple message selection algorithms. The MBSP mix runs a single and randomly chosen binomial-based algorithm at a time, which selects messages from the mix's single pool. The MBIP mix concurrently runs multiple algorithms and associates each with a separate pool. By comparing the proposed mix designs with the standard CDF-based Binomial mix and multiple other mixes, we show a significant improvement in security and performance: the strongest known (n - 1) blending attack and the known passive attack on the Binomial mix are rendered impractical; mixing traffic with different latency/security requirements is made possible; and predicting the behaviour of a mix is made more difficult. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.