Edited by
Hannelore Derluyn, CNRS in Pau, France.
Marc Prat, CNRS of Toulouse, France.
ISBN : 9781789451146
Publication Date : September 2024
Hardcover 260 pp
165.00 USD
Co-publisher
The crystallization of one or multiple salts in porous media (rocks, soils, building materials, etc.) is a subject of major interest in connection with numerous issues such as soil salinization, evaporation, CO2 injection into saline aquifers, the durability of building materials and the preservation of our cultural heritage.
Salt Crystallization in Porous Media provides an interdisciplinary review of the key scientific knowledge required to understand this field of research, and illustrates the issues involved through a series of concrete examples.
This book has been written for students completing their Master’s level degree or higher in the field, as well as researchers and engineers interested in this research. It may also be of interest to a wider readership, as certain sections can be used to illustrate basic concepts, reaching beyond the subject of salt crystallization itself.
Part 1. Fundamental Aspects.
1. Thermodynamics and Salt Crystallization Kinetics, Lionel Mercury.
2. Crystallization Pressure, Noushine Shahidzadeh.
3. Evaporation, Transport, and Crystallization, Marc Prat.
4. Poromechanics and Confined Crystallization in Porous Media, Patrick Dangla.
5. Experimental Observations on Salt Crystallization in Geomaterials, Hannelore Derluyn.
Part 2. Illustrations.
6. Large-Scale Mineral Precipitation and Its Effects on Infrastructures, Anna Ramon-Tarragona and Eduardo E. Alonso.
7. Salts in Heritage Sites, Julie Desarnaud.
8. Salt Crystallization in a Changing Environment, Beatriz Menéndez.
Hannelore Derluyn is a CNRS Associate Scientist at the Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs (LFCR) in Pau, France. Her research focuses on fluid–solid interactions during crystallization processes in geomaterials.
Marc Prat is CNRS Research Director at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France. His research focuses on transport phenomena in porous media.
