Reconsidering water scaling tendency assessment

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3583-3591

  Elfil, Hamza ^a   Hannachi, Ahmed ^b  

^a RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF ENERGY   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GABES   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Monohydrated calcium carbonate; Precipitation; Saturation index; Scaling; Supersaturation

Indexed keywords

LANGELIER SCALING INDEX (LSI); MONOHYDRATED CALCIUM CARBONATE; SATURATION INDEX; SCALING;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOLUBILITY; SUPERSATURATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

WATER ANALYSIS;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOLUBILITY; SUPERSATURATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WATER ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749475486     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10965     Document Type: Article

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