Salt precipitation and scale control in supercritical water oxidation - Part A: Fundamentals and research

Journal of Supercritical Fluids

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-288

  Hodes, Marc ^a   Marrone, Philip A ^b   Hong, Glenn T ^c   Smith, Kenneth A ^d   Tester, Jefferson W ^d  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Mass transfer; Phase diagrams; SCWO; Supercritical water oxidation

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER;

ACIDITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CLEANING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORROSION; DIFFUSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENERGY YIELD; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FLOW RATE; HEAT TRANSFER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OXIDATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRECIPITATION; REACTOR; REDUCTION KINETICS; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 4243111107     PISSN: 08968446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-8446(03)00093-7     Document Type: Article

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