Kinetics of the precipitation of calcium sulfate dihydrate in a desalination unit

Desalination

Volumn 158, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 9-16

  Alimi, F ^a   Elfil, H ^a   Gadri, A ^b  

^a Institut National de Recherche Scientifique et Technique Tunis   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GABES   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Gypsum; Heterogeneous nucleation; Homogeneous nucleation; Induction time; Interfacial tension

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; NUCLEATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); QUARTZ;

SUPERSATURATION SOLUTIONS;

DESALINATION;

CALCIUM SULFATE; DESALINATION; PRECIPITATION; SCALE FORMATION;

EID: 0042766421     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-9164(03)00426-0     Document Type: Article

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