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Corrosion Science 51 2009 356–363 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Corrosion Science journal home Another approach for ranking and evaluating organic paint coatings via electrochemical impedance spectroscopy E. Akbarinezhad a,b,*, M. Bahremandi c, H.R. Faridi a, F. Rezaei a,b a Corrosion Department, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry RIPI , P.O. Box 14665-1998, Tehran, Iran b Polymer Engineering Department, AmirKabir University of Technology, P.O. Box 15875-4413, Tehran, Iran c Exploration and Production Department, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry RIPI , P.O. Box 14665-1998, Tehran, Iran a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper proposes an approach for ranking organic protective coatings via electrochemical impedance Received 14 August 2008 spectroscopy EIS . The areas under the Bode plots have been determined and used as useful parameters Accepted 30 October 2008 to evaluate and to rank six commercial paints with high, intermediate, and poor qualities. Decreasing per- Available online 6 November 2008 centages DP of the areas under Bode plots were determined during the immersion periods. It is found that DP of the areas under Bode plots are useful parameters for evaluating coating degradation during the Keywords: immersion times. Results from this work were in good agreements with the results from electrical equiv- A. Organic coatings alent circuit EEC models. B. EIS 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. C. Paint coatings 1. Introduction models, these approaches are very simple and practical for evalu- ating the coating performance. But these approaches donot use Organic coatings are widely used to protect metals from corro- all data from the EIS measurements and this can cause errors in sion [1,2]. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy EIS is a very the evaluations. Therefore, it would be very useful if we could useful method in studyin