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- Title
Scale inhibition properties of metallic cations on CaCO<sub>3</sub> formation using fast controlled precipitation and a scaling quartz microbalance.
- Authors
Gritli, Manel; Cheap-Charpentier, Hélène; Horner, Olivier; Perrot, Hubert; Amor, Yasser Ben
- Abstract
Scaling process is the main problem encountered in industrial plants using water. Several factors (pH, temperature, hydrodynamic conditions, metal surface, and especially, water composition) can affect the scaling kinetics of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), one of the main components of scaling. In addition, some foreign ions added can considerably modify the scaling rates. In this work, the inhibiting effects of Zn2+ and Cu2+ cations on CaCO3 precipitation were studied in a 50°F synthetic carbonic solution by using fast controlled precipitation (FCP) and scaling quartz crystal microbalance (SQCM) methods, for homogeneous and heterogeneous scaling deposition, respectively. Results showed that Zn2+ and Cu2+ ions are efficient, at high concentrations (=1 mg/L), to delay or even to prevent nucleation/growth of CaCO3. FCP measurements showed a complete inhibition of the homogeneous CaCO3 precipitation after 120 min in synthetic solution containing 5 and 4 mg/L of Cu2+ and Zn2+, respectively. SQCM measurements showed that the surface coverage of the metallic substrate by a layer of CaCO3 is reduced when the amount of these cations increased. Zn2+ cations inhibited the heterogeneous CaCO3 precipitation more efficiently than Cu2+. SEM and XRD results indicated that both cations affect calcium carbonate nucleation by changing the morphology of CaCO3 crystals.
- Subjects
QUARTZ crystal microbalances; PRECIPITATION (Chemistry); COPPER surfaces; COMPOSITION of water; MICROBALANCES; CATIONS
- Publication
Desalination & Water Treatment, 2019, Vol 167, p113
- ISSN
1944-3994
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5004/dwt.2019.24578