Recovery of Silica from the Sumikawa Geothermal Fluids by Addition of Cationic Reagents

Journal of the Geothermal Research Society of Japan

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 249-258

  Ueda, Akira ^a   Kato, Koichi ^a   Abe, Kaori ^a   Furukawa, Takafumi ^a   Mogi, Katsumi ^a   Ishimi, Kazuo ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Daido Signal Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

cationic surfactants; polymerization; recovery; silica; zeta potential

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000948565     PISSN: 03886735     EISSN: 18835775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11367/grsj1979.22.249     Document Type: Article

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