Abstract
dc:descriptionIN THIS THESIS, WE STUDY THE PRECIPITATION OF CALCIUM SULFATE FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS AT SUPERSATURATIONS SUFFICIENT FOR SPONTANEOUS PRECIPITATION AND IN THE TEMPERATURE RANGE BETWEEN 20 -80 C. AT THESE CONDITIONS, THE ONLY PHASE FORMING WAS CALCIUM SULFATE DIHYDRATE. THE INDUCTION PERIODS AND THE SUBSEQUENT RATES OF PRECIPITATION WERE FOUND TO STRONGLY DEPEND ON THE SOLUTION SUPERSATURATION AND TEMPERATURE. DECREASE OF SUPERSATURATION RESULTED IN CHANGE OF THE CRYSTAL GROWTH-MECHANISM FROM SURFACE NUCLEATION TO A STEP DISLOCATION MECHANISM. THE PRESENCE OF ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS HEDP, ENTMP AND NTMP) EVEN AT VERY LOW CONCENTRATIONS (A FEW PPM) DECREASED THE RATES OF CALCIUM SULFATE DIHYDRATE PRECIPITATION IN THE ORDER (ENTMP>NTMP>>HEDP) AT CONDITIONS OF SUSTAINED SUPERSATURATION. MOREOVER, WE HAVE STUDIED THE INFLUENCE OF DIVALENT METAL-IONS (CD, MG, ZNAND SR) AT SUSTAINED SUPERSATURATION. THE EFFECT OF THESE METAL-IONS WAS LIMITED IN THE DECREASE OF SOLUTION SUPERSATURATION. FINALLY, THE PRESENCE OF CRYSTALS OF CALCIUM SULFATE DIHYDRATE FAVOURED THE FORMATION OF CALCIUM CARBONATE POLYMORPHS AT HIGH TEMPERATURES.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Patras
- Year dc:date
- 1991
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Authors dc:creator
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- Klepetsanis, Pavlos
- Κλεπετσάνης, Παύλος
Subjects
dc:subject × 14Rights
- Language dc:language
- gre
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- 10.12681/eadd/1758
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:10442/1758