{"id":653,"date":"2025-09-05T16:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/?page_id=653"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:08:15","slug":"xps-and-electrochemistry-to-understand-diffusion-of-x60-steel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/xps-and-electrochemistry-to-understand-diffusion-of-x60-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"XPS and electrochemistry to understand diffusion of X60 steel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong>: R. Hannachi, D. Biggio, B. Elsener, M. Fantauzzi, N. Zacchetti, A. Rossi, A Contribution of XPS and Electrochemistry to the Understanding of Hydrogen Diffusion in X60 Steel, Coatings 15 (2025) 442 doi:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2079-6412\/15\/4\/442\">10.3390\/coatings15040442<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X60 API 5L is one of the typical medium to high strength pipeline steels of the oil and gas industry that might be used in the future for green hydrogen storage and transportation. It is thus essential to know its mechanical, electrochemical and hydrogen permeation properties. In the framework of the e.INS WP 7 project \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/e-ins-spoke-7-low-carbon-technologies\/\">Study of hydrogen permeation barriers <\/a> for the safe storage and transport of green hydrogen<\/strong>\u201d hydrogen permeation of X60 API 5L steel was studied with an <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/study-of-hydrogen-diffusion-by-electrochemical-measurements\/\">electrochemical procedure<\/a> to determine its diffusion coefficient and hydrogen solubility. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/Hydrogen_X60-978x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-656 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/Hydrogen_X60-978x1024.jpg 978w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/Hydrogen_X60-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/Hydrogen_X60-768x804.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/Hydrogen_X60-1467x1536.jpg 1467w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/Hydrogen_X60-1957x2048.jpg 1957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The effective hydrogen diffusion coefficient D<sub>eff<\/sub> was determined from the hydrogen detection curves (figure) with the breakthrough time t<sub>b<\/sub> (or the time lag) according to the equation in the figure. With the sample thickness L = 2 mm the results (table) were in good agreement with literature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table  table-striped table-bordered table-hover\"  class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td>D<sub>eff<\/sub> (m<sup>2<\/sup>s<sup>-1<\/sup>)<\/td><td>D<sub>eff<\/sub> (m<sup>2<\/sup>s<sup>-1<\/sup>)<\/td><td>H C<sub>0<\/sub> ppm<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>H C X60 steel<\/td><td>2.4 (0.4) 10-10<\/td><td>2.8 (0.2 10-10<\/td><td>0.66 (0.02)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>H MP X60 steel<\/td><td>2.0 (0.4) 10-10<\/td><td>2.9 (0.5)<\/td><td>0.8 (0.1)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thickness and composition of the oxide film on the X60 steel were determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The high resolution Fe2p<sub>3\/2<\/sub> spectra (figure) were fitted with four peaks corresponding to metallic iron (706. 8 (0.1) eV), iron oxide FeO (709.4 (0.1) ev), Fe<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>3<\/sub> (710.6 (0.1) eV) and FeOOH (712.5 (0.1) eV). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/XPS_Fe2p_X60-1024x763.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-657 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/XPS_Fe2p_X60-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/XPS_Fe2p_X60-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/XPS_Fe2p_X60-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/files\/2025\/09\/XPS_Fe2p_X60.jpg 1132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publication: R. Hannachi, D. Biggio, B. Elsener, M. Fantauzzi, N. Zacchetti, A. Rossi, A Contribution of XPS and Electrochemistry to the Understanding of Hydrogen Diffusion in X60 Steel, Coatings 15 (2025) 442 doi:&nbsp;10.3390\/coatings15040442 X60 API 5L [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-653","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/653\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/superfici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}