Zahid (Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc., Brecksville, Ohio, USA) Amjad 
The Science and Technology of Industrial Water Treatment [PDF ebook] 

Mineral scale deposits, corrosion, suspended matter, and microbiological growth are factors that must be controlled in industrial water systems. Research on understanding the mechanisms of these problems has attracted considerable attention in the past three decades as has progress concerning water treatment additives to ameliorate these concerns.