Tidying up the environment: A journey from exponential curves to hydrodynamics in environmental batch dissolutions

• Published in: Pure and applied chemistry Vol. 83; no. 5; pp. 1113 - 1128
• Main Author: Truesdale, Victor W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin De Gruyter 21.02.2011; Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Subjects: batch dissolution; Calcium carbonate; Dissolution; dissolution hydrodynamics; dissolution kinetics; dissolution mechanism; Fluid dynamics; Fluid flow; Gypsum; Hydrodynamics; Reaction kinetics; salt dissolution; shrinking object model; Silica gel; silica gel dissolution; Silicon dioxide; Standardization; Sucrose

This paper reviews progress made over the last decade with the shrinking object approach to the kinetics of batch dissolution. It demonstrates how the O’Connor–Greenberg equation leads to three dissolutions: those that remain well undersaturated, those that saturate with a great excess of solid left...