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An analysis of the behavior of nanosized colloidal particles in a supersaturated solution made it possible to substantiate the possibility of increasing the heat-transfer efficiency in a heat exchanger during magnetic treatment of a heat-transfer agent. A model is proposed to weaken the scale during magnetic treatment of a water stream. A colloidal solution is shown to decrease its stability—the coagulation of colloidal particles begins—because of the deformation of the double electrical layer. As a result of increasing the effective radius of curvature of nanoparticles, the solution becomes strongly supersaturated with respect to forming aggregates, which accelerates the solidification of dissolved salts on them. The influence of the interfacial layer of nanoobjects decreases the energy of formation of critical nuclei (size effect) and their sizes. Since coagulation tends to decrease the concentration of critical nuclei in the solution, their loss should be compensated via the homogeneous generation of new nuclei. As a result, the concentration of suspended particles increases additionally and the antiscale effect is enhanced. The solidification flux of dissolved salts is shown to deposit mainly on suspended nanoparticles due to an increase in their total surface area and to the fact that the coefficient of mass transfer to suspension is higher than that to the wall by four orders of magnitude. The mathematical model constructed on the basis of the detected set of physical processes can be used to perform quantitative estimates of the antiscale effect in real power plants.
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Original Russian Text © S.I. Koshoridze, Yu.K. Levin, L.N. Rabinskiy, A.V. Babaytsev, 2016, published in Tekhnologiya Metallov, 2016, No. 12, pp. 24–33.
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Koshoridze, S.I., Levin, Y.K., Rabinskiy, L.N. et al. Investigation of Deposits in Channels of Panels of a Heat-Transfer Agent. Russ. Metall. 2017, 1194–1201 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036029517130092
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