BACKGROUND Surfaces that control solid, liquid, or vapor accretion have numerous
applications, including self-cleaning windows and solar panels; water and fog harvesting; …

In the present time, more often, it has been seen that scaling has grown as widely and
caused problems in the oilfield industry. Scaling is the deposition of various salts of …

A vast majority of heat exchangers suffer from unwanted deposition of material on the
surface, which severely inhibits their performance and thus marks one of the biggest …

Scale formation on surfaces can normally be divided into two distinct processes: a
“deposition process” which refers to the process of heterogeneous nucleation and growth at …

Investigation on fouling behaviour of calcium carbonate on heat exchanger surfaces as well
as mitigation of fouling are presented in this paper. By varying parameters such as …

A wide range of industrial processes (ie, evaporation and condensation in desalination
process, steam power plant, solar plant, etc.) involve heat transfer among the fluids. During …

The work reported primarily focuses on understanding the mechanisms of calcium
carbonate (CaCO3) scale deposition on nano-and micro-structured polymer surfaces and on …

In this review, we present a framework to guide the design of surfaces which are resistant to
solid fouling, based on the modulus and length scale of the fouling material. Solid fouling is …

Fouling formation on heat exchanger surfaces due to crystallization of inverse solubility salts
is one of the fundamental problems in process industries. Despite numerous studies carried …

An experimental set-up was built to study heat transfer fouling of different pipe materials
used in heat exchangers. Fouling mitigation investigations using wood pulp fibres in …