Improved antiscaling treatment for desalination plants

✍ Scribed by P. Zini; R. Zannoni; R. Lucenti

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 597 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-9164
• DOI: 10.1016/0011-9164(87)90211-6

✦ Synopsis

The continuous evolution in polymers technology has recently provided tools for designing and industrially producing several new classes of water soluble polymers. Progresses in the usage and understanding of water soluble polymers have been important, for instance, in oil fields applications, in detergency, in mining and, of course, in industrial water treatment.

Among those latter we will present a case of a new development in the area of polymers usage for multiflash evaporators plants, where high temperatures (+ 11OOC) and low risk operating conditions can co-exist in order to maximise the plant efficiency and productivity. This paper covers two aspects of this development, mainly the initial lab work and the plans for confirming those results in a newly built MFE plant.