Hydrothermal experimental data / Гидротермальные экспериментальные данные

Knowledge of equilibria in aqueous systems as well as understanding the processes occurring in hydrothermal mixtures are based to a large extent on experimental data on phase equilibria and solution properties for aqueous systems at temperatures above 150–200 °C. These data have been extensively applied in a variety of fi elds of science and technology, ranging from development of the chemistry of solutions and heterogeneous mixtures, thermophysics, crystallography, geochemistry and oceanography to industrial and environmental applications, such as electric power generation, hydrothermal technologies of crystal growth and nanoparticle syntheses, hydrometallurgy and the treatment of sewage and the destruction of hazardous waste.

The available experimental data for binary and ternary systems can be used as primary reference data, or as the initial values for further refi nement, in order to obtain recommended values, particularly, the internally consistent values that are used for thermodynamic calculations and modelling of multicomponent equilibria and reactions.

However, the recommended values are derivatives and largely depend on the method of treatment based on more or less rigorous and varying models. Thus, a collection of experimental data not only incorporates original information from widely scattered scientifi c publications, it is fundamental and provides the foundation for modern and future databases, and recommended values.

The main goals of this book are to collect, collate and compile the available original experimental data on phase equilibria and solution properties for binary and ternary hydrothermal systems, to review these data, and to consider the employed experimental methods and the ways these data were refi ned/processed and presented <...>