Scale prevention by ceramic balls

DOI10.4208/EAJAM.310718.020119MaRDI QIDQ4983605zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hideo Kawarada, Olivier Pironneau

Publication date 26 April 2021

Published in East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10598

zbMATH Keywords

crystal lattice modelHelmholtz free energyNavier-Stokes equationPoisson-Boltzmann equationwater scale control

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Electrochemistry (78A57) Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Optimization problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M50) Education of foundations of mathematics (97E99) Physics, astronomy, technology, engineering (aspects of mathematics education) (97M50)

Abstract: In industrial facilities and household equipments scale formation leads to reduced efficiency and damages. Therefore various devices for anti-scale have been designed for a long time. Recently one of them, an aggregation of ceramic spheres, was proposed to prevent scale formation and its efficiency shown experimentally. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the function of this device by proposing several mathematical models and by pursuing their mathematical and numerical analysis. The first model measures the effect on nucleation of calcite of the electric potential near the surface of a ceramic sphere in natural water. The second model is based on a crystal lattice model and argues that the surface tension energy of the calcite particles is reduced by the polarization energy brought by the ceramic balls. The third model is macroscopic and numerical and studies the effect of two ceramic balls arrangements in a flow of water containing calcite particles.

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