What is it about?
Brine from desalination plants contains valuable minerals but also creates scaling and environmental challenges. This study shows how salt concentration changes the solubility of key minerals, helping engineers decide when minerals will stay dissolved and when they can be recovered as precipitates.
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Why is it important?
It supports practical recovery of minerals from Kuwait brines and improves prediction of scaling and precipitation during desalination-brine management.
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working on ionic strength effects on mineral solubility, CaSO4 salting-in and salting-out in brines, Mg(OH)2 precipitation from desalination brine.
Dr. Hussain Al-Sairfi
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
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This page is a summary of: Modeling the Influence of Ionic Strength on Mineral Solubility in Concentrated Brine Solutions, Processes, January 2026, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/pr14010172.
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