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Mineral Scales and Deposits: Scientific and Technological Approaches presents, in an integrated way, the problem of scale deposits (precipitation/crystallization of sparingly-soluble salts) in aqueous systems, both industrial and biological.
It covers several fundamental aspects, also offering an applications' perspective, with the ultimate goal of helping the reader better understand the underlying mechanisms of scale formation, while also assisting the user/reader to solve scale-related challenges.
It is ideal for scientists/experts working in academia, offering a number of crystal growth topics with an emphasis on mechanistic details, prediction modules, and inhibition/dispersion chemistry, amongst others. In addition, technologists, consultants, plant managers, engineers, and designers working in industry will find a field-friendly overview of scale-related challenges and technological options for their mitigation.
List of contents
Section 1: Fouling and Scaling Fundamentals 1. Water-Formed Scales and Deposits: Types, Characteristics, and Relevant Industries
2. Water Chemistry and its Role in Industrial Water Systems
3. Mechanisms of Scale Formation and Inhibition
4. Corrosion inhibitors in cooling water systems
5. The Mineralogy of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion
6. Biofouling in Industrial water Systems
7. Particulate Matter: Interfacial Properties, Fouling, and its Mitigation
8. Water Treatment Chemicals: Types, Solution Chemistry, and Applications
9. Non-Chemical Methods to Control Scale and Deposit Formation
10. New Product Development for Oilfield Application
11. Patent Review related to Scale and Scale Inhibition
Section 2: Biological, Environmental and Home Care 12. Scaling Problems in Home Care Applications
13. Tartar and Plaque Control
14. Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Deposition Disease
15. Importance of Calcium based Scales in Kidney Stones
16. Calcification of Biomaterials
17. Withdrawn: Deposits on Hair and Skin: Types, Characterization, and Removal
18. Withdrawn: Legionella in Water Systems
19. Removal of Toxic Materials from Aqueous Streams
Section 3: Scaling and Fouling Issues by Industry 20. Membrane Based Desalination: Challenges and Solutions
21. Cooling Water Systems: An Overview
22. Withdrawn: Managing an Open Recirculating Water System from Start Up to Turn Around
23. Equipment Fouling in dairy processes
24. Scaling in Alkaline Spent Pulping Liquor Evaporators
25. Control of Silica-based Scales in Cooling and Geothermal Systems
26. Thermal Distillation: Current Challenges
27. Oilfield Mineral Scale Control
28. Scale Control in Sugar Evaporators
29. Scale Formation in Tungston Hydrometallurgical Process
Section 4. Systems Support and Maintenance 30. Analytical Techniques to Characterize Scales and Deposits
31. Removal/Dissolution of Scale Deposits
32. Scaling Indices: Types and Applications
33. On-Line Monitoring of Water Treatment Chemicals
About the author
Zahid Amjad received his BSc in Chemistry (Honors) and MSc in Chemistry from the University of the Panjab, Pakistan, and PhD from Glasgow University, Scotland, United Kingdom. He was a lecturer at the Institute of Chemistry of Panjab University and served as an assistant research professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York. He started his professional career as an R & D scientist. During his more than 30 years at Calgon Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, he has worked in various fields, including water treatment, water purification, cosmetics, home care, oral care, and pharmaceutics, and related fields. Dr. Amjad has presented numerous invited lectures and participated in symposiums around the world. He has published more than 200 papers, has contributed to numerous book chapters, has edited seven books, and holds 30 US patents. His awards include Induction into the National Hall of Corporate Inventors, EDI Innovation Award, and the recipient of the Association of the Water Technologies’ Ray Baum Memorial Water Technologist of the Year Award. Dr. Amjad is a member of several societies and has organized several symposiums on crystal growth formation and inhibition, physico-chemical processes at solid-liquid interface, adsorption, desorption, and dispersion. He is the owner of Aqua Science and Technology LLC, Columbus, Ohio, which provides consulting services for industrial water treatment, separation processes, and related technologies. Dr. Amjad currently serves as a visiting professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Walsh University, North Canton, Ohio.Kostas Demadis is a Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Greece. He is head of the Crystal Engineering, Growth & Design Laboratory delving into diverse fields of chemistry and chemical technology. His research group is involved in projects that embrace phosphonate and metal phosphonate chemistry (synthesis, characterization and applications of metal phosphonate materials), functional hybrid materials, silicon chemistry (modeling of biosilicification mechanisms), water treatment issues (mineral scale inhibition, corrosion control, metal ion absorption), controlled release of active pharmaceutical ingredients (in particular phosphonate-based drugs), and green chemistry and engineering. Professor Demadis has published over 220 papers in peer reviewed journals, 24 chapters in books, 8 books, and is the inventor of 2 patents.
