Abstract
Corrosion and oxidation of structure material in supercritical water are specific and an important issue in the nuclear industry. A scale removal cellular automaton model was proposed to investigate the development of a continuous oxide layer of Inconel 625 in supercritical water at 24.8 MPa and 600 °C. This study presented influence of the reaction behavior of oxidation, scale removal effect, and transport ratio of oxygen and metal ions on the corrosion and oxidation process with different conditions. The formation of the spinel is simulated at mesoscopic level. The developed model is also mapped with the laboratory experimental data from a supercritical water loop. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.