Analysis of 'classical' deposition rate law for crystallisation fouling

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1201-1210

  Bansal, Bipan ^a   Chen, Xiao Dong ^a   Müller Steinhagen, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcium sulphate; Crystallisation fouling; Deposition rate law; Heat exchanger; Nucleation sites

Indexed keywords

FOULING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CALCIUM SULPHATE; CRYSTALLIZATION FOULING; DEPOSITION RATE LAW; NUCLEATION SITES;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; FOULING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EID: 43849108091     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2007.03.016     Document Type: Article

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