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.
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Hannelore DERLUYN and Marc PRAT
Introduction xv
Marc PRAT
Part 1. Fundamental Aspects 1
Chapter 1. Thermodynamics and Salt Crystallization Kinetics 3
Lionel MERCURY
Chapter 2. Crystallization Pressure 25
Noushine SHAHIDZADEH
Chapter 3. Evaporation, Transport, and Crystallization 45
Marc PRAT
Chapter 4. Poromechanics and Confined Crystallization in Porous Media 75
Patrick DANGLA
Chapter 5. Experimental Observations on Salt Crystallization in Geomaterials 99
Hannelore DERLUYN
Part 2. Illustrations 127
Chapter 6. Large-Scale Mineral Precipitation and Its Effects on Infrastructures 129
Anna RAMON-TARRAGONA and Eduardo E. ALONSO
Chapter 7. Salts in Heritage Sites 163
Julie DESARNAUD
Chapter 8. Salt Crystallization in a Changing Environment 189
Beatriz MENÉNDEZ
List of Authors 231
Index 233
