Water-Formed Deposits: Fundamentals and Mitigation Strategies (Paperback)

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 KEE 5. Microbiologicaly Influenced Corrosion 6. Biofouling in Industrial water Systems 7. Particulate Matter: Interfacial Properties, Fouling, and its Mitigation 8. Calcium phosphates 9. Non-Chemical Methods to Control Scales and Deposits 10. Silica and metal silicate deposits

Section 2. Scaling and Fouling Issues by Industry 11. Membrane Based Desalination: Challenges and Solutions 12. Cooling Water Systems: An Overview 13. Ensuring operation of geothermal plant by chemical additives 14. Scales in geothermal power plants 15. Equipment Fouling in Dairy Applications 16. Scaling in Alkaline Spent Pulping Liquor Evaporators 17. Advanced corrosion and deposit control in steam generators 18. Thermal Distillation: Current Challenges 19. Recent Developments in Oil Field Scale Control 20. Asphaltenes (Quartz Crystal Microbalance) 21. Scale Control in Sugar Evaporators 22. Advanced corrosion and deposit control in steam generators 23. Deposit Formation in the Automotive Coolant Industrty

Section 3. Biological, Environmental, and Home Care 24. Perspectives on Scale Control for Home Care in a Post Phosphate World 25. Tartar and Plaque Control 26. Control of composite oilfield scales and deposits 27. Detergents/Home care 28. Calcification of Biomaterials 29. Biofouling Prevention 30. Removal of Toxic Materials from Aqueous Streams

Section 4. Systems Support and Maintenance 31. Global Water Issues 32. Legionella: Causes, Cases, and Mitigation 33. Current and Upcoming US Regulations Impacting Water Treatment 34. Understanding REACH and iits Impact on Water Treatment Industry 35. Economical Aspects of Scales, Corrosion, and Fouling 36. Industrial Water Systems: Procedures, Calculations, and Chemicals Monitoring 37. Scale Deposits Removal/Dissolution 38. Fluorscent Tagged Polymers 39. Deposit Control Polymers in Waer Treatment Appliations 40. Phosphonate inhibitors: Types, Solution Chemistry, and Applications 41. Biocides: Selection and Applications 42. Surface science techniques for understanding corrosion processes 43. Polyelctrolytes for Wastewater Application