Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of natural Jordanian zeolite tuff to remove ammonia from aqueous solutions using a laboratory batch method and fixed-bed column apparatus. Equilibrium data were fitted to Langmuir and F

01.Jun.2014

​The paper presents the effect of vanadium addition to aluminum grain refined by titanium, in the range from 0.005 wt % to 0.236 wt %, on corrosion rate of these micro alloys in caustic soda (NaOH) solution at different temperatures. The corrosion rate decreased by the addition of any percent of vanadium at 25°C compared to pure Al. The corrosion rate increased with increase of solution temperature from 25 to 40 and 60 °C at any percent of vanadium addition. However, addition of vanadium reduced the corrosion rate at these temperatures at most wt.% of V addition. The maximum achieved reduction in corrosion rate due to vanadium addition was 40 % at 0.148 wt % and 60°C. The addition of 3 % potassium dichromate as corrosion inhibitor to NaOH solution reduced the average corrosion rates at any wt.% of vanadium. The inhibition efficiency ranged from 44- 58% at 25 °C and from 97-99% at 40 and 60°C.