A natural convection model for the rate of salt deposition from near-supercritical, aqueous solutions

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1027-1037

  Hodes, Marc ^a   Smith, Kenneth A ^a   Griffith, Peter ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Double diffusion; Fouling; Heat transfer; Mass transfer; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OXIDATION; SOLUBILITY;

MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; POROUS SALT LAYERS;

SALT DEPOSITS;

DIFFUSION; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NATURAL CONVECTION; SALT SOLUTION;

EID: 0347285612     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1603772     Document Type: Article

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