Abstract
It is shown that the use of electrolyte composition developed in this work allows to reduce almost twice the carbon content in the surface layer of steel 45, and introduction of additional operation after elec- trolytic heating – the oxidation in aqueous solution of caustic soda of concentration 50–100 g/l – to reduce corrosion rate almost by a factor of two. It is also established that processing in another electrolyte formu- lated in the course of research leads to the reduction of corrosion rate of electrolytic iron coverings by more than 2 times.