With decades of developments, RO desalination has evolved into a mature technology with
excellent performance to meet emergent global freshwater needs. Nevertheless, the …

The formation of scale poses several serious menaces in oil and gas exploitations. The
scaling phenomenon may cause technical problems such as obstruction of equipment and …

Over the past few years, nanomaterials have been gradually developed as scale inhibitors.
In this work, an environmentally friendly and antibacterial sulfur quantum dot scale inhibitor …

Amino trimethylenephosphonic acid (ATMP), nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) and
ethylenedinitrilotetraacetic acid (EDTA) represent the typical phosphonate and carboxylic …

A green fluorescent labeled scale inhibitor, curcumin-poly (malic acid)(Cur-PMA) was
synthesized from curcumin and malic acid (MA). The structure of Cur-PMA was …

The mechanism of hydration of calcium sulfate hemihydrate (CaSO4· 0.5 H2O) to form
gypsum (CaSO4· 2H2O) was studied by combining scanning 3D X-ray diffraction (s3DXRD) …

Abstract Changes of crystal morphology and size of calcium sulfate hemihydrate (HH) by Al
3+ ions, synthesized by hydrothermal method, were carried out to understand the interaction …

A new green scale inhibitor, hydroxyperylene imide (PBI-OH)-poly (malic acid) graft polymer
(PBI-PMA), was synthesized by PBI-OH and malic acid (MA). The structure of PBI-PMA was …

Calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) is a common mineral in industrial water systems.
Organophosphate is a widely used scale inhibitor with 100% inhibition of thousands of mg/L …

A polyaspartic acid derivative (PASP-Im) as a novel scale inhibitor was synthesized by a
simple green synthesis route with polysuccinimide and iminodiacetic acid as the starting …