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Book review Advances in Crystal Growth Inhibition Technologies, 277 Edited by Zahid Amjad, Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, Dordrecht, ISBN 0-30646499-3; US$135 The crystal growth and inhibition processes are very important in petroleum recovery, sugar refining and waste water treatment, etc. It is also of great importance in biological systems, i.e. dental calculus or tartar formation. Researchers have developed many kinds of crystal growth inhibitors and successfully applied them, for example, in heat exchangers. Solution properties of inhibitors i.e. the interaction of polymeric and non-polymeric inhibitors with a variety of scale forming crystals such as calcium phosphates, calcium carbonate, calcium oxalates have also been carefully studied, and this will greatly help design of high performance formulations. This book gives useful information for both the academic researchers and company formulators.
Fundamental knowledge on the mechanism of the inhibitor solution behaviors will help to develop new inhibitors. Examples of industrial applications can also give ideas as to how to achieve optimum system efficiency in industrial formulations. Polymers with chelating effects and new types of polymeric gels are potentially useful crystal inhibitors because of their special solution properties, but the research in this area is scarce. Overall this book is a good contribution for the crystal inhibition industry. P. Somasundaran, F. Liu School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia Uni6ersity, 911 S.W. Mudd Building, 500 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA
0927-7757/02/$ - see front matter © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PII: S 0 9 2 7 - 7 7 5 7 ( 0 1 ) 0 0 8 0 3 - 2
Book review Advances in Crystal Growth Inhibition Technologies, 277 Edited by Zahid Amjad, Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, Dordrecht, ISBN 0-30646499-3; US$135 The crystal growth and inhibition processes are very important in petroleum recovery, sugar refining and waste water treatment, etc. It is also of great importance in biological systems, i.e. dental calculus or tartar formation. Researchers have developed many kinds of crystal growth inhibitors and successfully applied them, for example, in heat exchangers. Solution properties of inhibitors i.e. the interaction of polymeric and non-polymeric inhibitors with a variety of scale forming crystals such as calcium phosphates, calcium carbonate, calcium oxalates have also been carefully studied, and this will greatly help design of high performance formulations. This book gives useful information for both the academic researchers and company formulators.
Fundamental knowledge on the mechanism of the inhibitor solution behaviors will help to develop new inhibitors. Examples of industrial applications can also give ideas as to how to achieve optimum system efficiency in industrial formulations. Polymers with chelating effects and new types of polymeric gels are potentially useful crystal inhibitors because of their special solution properties, but the research in this area is scarce. Overall this book is a good contribution for the crystal inhibition industry. P. Somasundaran, F. Liu School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia Uni6ersity, 911 S.W. Mudd Building, 500 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA
0927-7757/02/$ - see front matter © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PII: S 0 9 2 7 - 7 7 5 7 ( 0 1 ) 0 0 8 0 3 - 2