A model for the prediction of the corrosion of steels in flowing liquid lead alloys

Abstract The values of the solubility and diffusion coefficients of iron in the eutectic liquid alloy Pb–17Li to be used in a corrosion model of Balbaud-Celerier and Barbier should be taken from the corrosion data of Borgstedt and Rohrig. These data are consistent with the Einstein–Sutherland equation and values for diffusion coefficients of metal atoms in liquid metal solutes. They are lose to those in pure lead or in the eutectic Pb–Bi alloy, and the model generates correction corrosion rates with their application.