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<mods:note>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/scale-deposition&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about Scale deposition from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;Scale deposition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;is considered as one of the most critical problems leading to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/permeate-flux&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about permeate flux from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;permeate flux&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;decline and deterioration of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/membrane-surface&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about membrane surface from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;membrane surface&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemical-engineering/reverse-osmosis&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about reverse osmosis from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;reverse osmosis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;(RO)&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/desalination-plant&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about desalination plants from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;desalination plants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;. This study aims to preparation of novel high effective&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/scale-inhibitor&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about scale inhibitor from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;scale inhibitor&lt;/a&gt;, chitosan biguanidine hydrochloride (CG), to inhibit the precipitation of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/calcium-sulfate&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about calcium sulfate from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;calcium sulfate&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and carbonate onto the membrane surface. The modification of Chitosan by the guanidine group was to enhance its solubility in water, because chitosan as it is dissolves only in moderately acidic solutions. CG was synthesized and characterized by&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/fourier-transform&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about FTIR from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;FTIR&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;C NMR and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;H NMR. The inhibition efficiency of our&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/antiscalant&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about antiscalant from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;antiscalant&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;was evaluated against CaSO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;and CaCO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;solutions at both static (induction time) and real application tests (cross-flow unit for 6 h). CG showed a good performance as scale inhibitor for CaSO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;and CaCO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;at about 10 and 15 mg·L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;−1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;with flux decline of 2.6 and 5% in feed water, respectively. In addition, the induction time of precipitation of CaSO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;increased from 3 to 15 min with the addition of CG. SEM analysis at different magnifications for Cs and CG proved that CG strongly affects the morphology of the precipitated calcium sulfate and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemical-engineering/calcium-carbonate&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about calcium carbonate from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;calcium carbonate&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;leading to distortion of crystals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</mods:note>
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