“…Carbon steel is commonly used in petroleum processing facilities for refining and marine applications, due to its mechanical properties and also from an economical point of view. , It is well-known that the metallic surfaces are suffering from corrosion, and this is leading to significant economic losses in addition to a bad environmental impact. , It was reported in the literature that organic compounds with hetero atoms such as nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorus show promising efficiency in mitigating the aggressive attack of corrosive species on a metal surface. , These types of organic compounds act at the interface between the metal and the aggressive solution through the adsorption on metal surfaces, forming a protective layer that isolates the metallic surfaces from the corrosive environment . Accordingly, the selection of this type of cationic surfactants in the present work is attributed to the presence of incorporated hetero-organic moieties, which offer more protection potential against the corrosion of steel, along with the presence of a long chain that increases the minimum area per molecule. − Cationic surfactants are a category of surface-active agents that dissociate in water to create surface-active cations. Because of the beneficial characteristics of these cationic surfactants, they have numerous applications in many sectors.…”