Calcium sulphate scale prevention in a desalination unit using the SMCEC technique

S. Ben Ahmed; M. Tlili; M. Ben Amor; H. Ben Bacha; B. Elleuch

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2004.06.140

Calcium sulphate scale prevention in a desalination unit using the SMCEC technique

S. Ben Ahmed
, M. Tlili
, M. Ben Amor
, H. Ben Bacha
, B. Elleuch

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Abstract

The desalination unit UTAIM using the solar multiple condensation evaporation cycle principle (SMCEC) is confronted with the problem of heat-exchange surface plugging by dihydrate calcium sulphate. The aim of this work is the prevention of this scale problem by using chemical inhibitors. The kinetics of calcium sulphate nucleation and crystalline growth increase with temperature. At all operating temperatures, the solution keeps a large metastable domain. The supersaturation coefficient β at the end of precipitation is about of 2.5. In presence of increasing quantities of chemical inhibitors (RPI 2000, Flocon 260, STPP, Permatreat), the precipitation kinetics decrease. The RPI 2000 (polyacrylate) sharply inhibits the formation of sulphate scale at high and low temperature.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	311-318
Number of pages	8
Journal	Desalination
Volume	167
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2004.06.140
State	Published - 15 Aug 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Chemical inhibitors
Desalination unit
Dihydrate calcium sulphate
Precipitation kinetics
Scale problem

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Calcium sulphate scale prevention in a desalination unit using the SMCEC technique

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