Reduction of sodium aluminosilicate scale in Bayer plant heat exchangers

Light Metals: Proceedings of Sessions, TMS Annual Meeting (Warrendale, Pennsylvania)

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 13-18

  Addai Mensah, J ^a   Gerson, A R ^a   Jones, R ^a   Zbik, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ALUMINA; CHEMICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FOULING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; METAL REFINERIES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REDUCTION; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALUMINA REFINING; BAYER PLANTS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; SELECTIVE SEEDING; SODALITE CANCRINITE; SODIUM ALUMINOSILICATE SCALE;

SCALE (DEPOSITS);

EID: 0035555257     PISSN: 10969586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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