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JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
Volume 302, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2021.122026
Keywords
Morphology; Calcium carbonate; Polymorphism; Calcite; Vaterite
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The study investigates the impact of various chelating agents on the crystallization, polymorphism, and morphology of CaCO3 in the presence of barium at 100 degrees C. Different additives were found to stabilize different polymorphs of CaCO3, leading to enhanced scale inhibition efficiency. The mechanism of polymorph stabilization by the additives and the effect of blending different additives were discussed for better understanding of the scale inhibition process.
The effect of different chelating agents on the crystallization of CaCO3, polymorphism and morphology of CaCO3 in the presence of barium were studied at 100 degrees C. The samples were characterized using FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, XRD and FESEM techniques. The study revealed that without any chelating agents, in the presence of different volumes of 0.1M Ba2+ ion solution, stabilization of a binary mixture of rhombohedral calcite and flower-like vaterite was facilitated. In the presence of EDTA, the phenomenal transformation of calcite to vateritewas observed. Pure calcite has resulted in the presence of Nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) in the presence of Ba2+ ions. Blending EDTA with NTA favored a binary mixture of spherical vaterite and calcite. The probable mechanism for stabilization of various polymorphs by the additives and effect of blending of additives for better scale inhibition efficiency has been discussed.
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