
Water-Formed Deposits
Fundamentals and Mitigation Strategies
- 1st Edition - March 24, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Zahid Amjad, Konstantinos D. Demadis
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 8 9 6 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 0 8 6 - 2
Water-Formed Deposits: Fundamentals and Mitigation Strategies wholly presents the important issue of deposits in aqueous systems, both industrial and biological. By analyz… Read more
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- Provides a fundamental understanding of deposit formation by presenting basic science and mechanisms
- Presents an “applications” perspective
- Reveals a systematic overview of deposit-related challenges and their mitigation
- Correlates structure to performance in mitigation strategies
- Analyzes current legal aspects and regulations
- Includes case studies from the “real” industrial world for the industrial reader/end user
Chemists, Chemical Engineers, Water Technologists, Plant Managers Consultants, Graduate Students, Post-doctoral. Geologists, Technologists/Formulators involved in Consumer Products Development
Section A Fouling and scaling fundamentals
1. Water chemistry and its role in industrial water systems
2. Mechanisms of scale formation and inhibition
3. History of phosphorus-containing corrosion inhibitors: From the beginning till the present time
4. Biomineralization: Applied to biodeterioration and bioremediation
5. Microfouling in industrial cooling water systems
6. Particulate matter: Interfacial properties, fouling, and its mitigation
7. Calcium phosphates in geological, biological, and industrial systems
8. Nonchemical methods to control scale and deposit formation
9. Silica and metal silicate deposits
Section B Scaling and fouling issues by industry
10. Reverse osmosis: Fundamental causes of membrane deposition and approaches to mitigation
11. Cooling water systems: An overview
12. Formation and mitigation of mineral scaling in geothermal power plants
13. Gypsum scale control by phosphonate additives
14. Recent developments in oilfield scale control
15. Oilfield iron sulfide scale formation and mitigation
16. Oilfield scale inhibitors: Synthetic and performance aspects
17. Control of composite oilfield scales and deposits
18. Polymers for industrial water systems: Synthesis, characterization, and applications
19. Polymeric supports for water treatment applications
20. Scale in sugar juice evaporators: Types, cases, and prevention
21. Scale control in thermal desalination
Section C Biological, environmental, and home care
22. Scale control in home care applications
23. Calcification of biomaterials
24. Kidney stone formation—Thermodynamic, kinetic, and clinical aspects
25. Novel technologies to prevent dental plaque and calculus
26. Biofouling (macro-fouling) in seawater intake systems
27. Sewer solids affecting microbiologically induced corrosion and/or hydrogen sulfide formation
28. Legionella: Causes, cases, and mitigation
Section D Systems support and maintenance
29. Global water treatment trends and issues
30. Simulation tools for membrane scaling in reverse osmosis desalination plants
31. Synthesis, properties, and applications of novel fluorescent>tagged scale inhibitors in water treatment
32. Phosphonate inhibitors: Types, solution chemistry, and applications
33. Introducing X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for corrosion studies:A tool for elucidating interfacial composition and chemistry
34. Polyelectrolyte polymers—Types,forms, and function
35. Mechanisms of scale inhibition derived from a fluorescent-tagged antiscalant visualization
36. Mineral scale deposits—Analysis and interpretation
37. Regulatory and compliance issuesfaced by the water treatment industry
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 24, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Zahid Amjad
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.
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Konstantinos D. Demadis
In 2003 Kostas started his appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, in his homeland Greece. He created the Crystal Engineering, Growth & Design Laboratory. Kostas is currently Professor of Chemistry.
Kostas’ research group is interested in a number of projects. Metal phosphonate chemistry (synthesis, characterization and application 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 ingredients (in particular phosphonate-based drugs), green chemistry.
Professor Demadis has published over 130 papers in peer reviewed journals, 16 chapters in books, three edited books, and is the inventor of two patents. He has delivered over 50 invited talks and over 100 conference presentations. For more information, see http://www.chemistry.uoc.gr/demadis.