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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 261, Issue 1, Pages 115-126Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9797(03)00057-2
Keywords
zeta potential; calcium carbonate; bibliographical review; experimental measurements; calco-carbonic equilibrium
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The problem of scaling, which one finds in industrial heat exchangers, particularly in atmospheric coolers in nuclear power stations, depends on calcium carbonate deposits from fresh water. To better understand this phenomenon, we have examined the eventual implication of superficial electric charge of precipitated crystal nuclei. After a bibliographical review showing a fundamental divergence from already published results, this paper describes an experimental plant to measure the zeta potential in controlled conditions of thermodynamic equilibrium, oversaturation, or undersaturation of a CaCO3-H2O-CO2 system taking into account simultaneously the three phases: gas, liquid, and solid. The zeta potential is measured by a crystalline-plug method with calcite or aragonite crystals. The potential cancels at thermodynamic equilibrium and is always negative for other conditions, in particular for oversaturation where the possibility of scaling exists. The analysis of these results suggests that the potential determining ions of the system are Ca2+ and HCO3-. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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