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Events

CRYSPOM III

After the first successful workshops in Paris 2008 and Brienz 2010 the international workshop Crystallization in Porous Media will take place 4-7 September at Troia in Portugal. The workshop focuses on fundamental research of crystallization in porous material. It aims for a better understanding of the damage mechanism to allow implementing effective preventive and protective measures and treatments. This third edition of the workshop will also focus on the development of low energy heat storage systems based on salts. Topics are:

• Nucleation and crystal growth in the pore network
• Crystallization pressure and its relation with damage
• Behaviour of salt mixtures
• Influence of salts on moisture transport processes, e.g., during drying
• Measures for prevention or remediation of salt decay
• Methods for control of crystallization
• Heat storage by salts

The idea is to bring together leading researchers and Ph.D. students to provide for a constructive and open dialogue. Also it seeks to promote collaborations between theorists and experimentalists on an international level(conference website).

More information and the program can be found at the conference website: .

12TH International Conference on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The 12th International Conference on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone to be held at Columbia University in the City of New York on the 22-26 October 2012.

New Literature

Under SWBSS2011 you will find the compilation of the contributions of the international conference SWBSS 2011 - Salt Weathering on Buildings and Stone Sculptures in Limassol, Cyprus. Many of them are available as full text.

Victoria Voronina (2011): Salt extraction by poulticing : an NMR study, PhD-Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, 114 p.

C.M. Grossia, P. Brimblecombea, B. Menéndezb, D. Benaventec, I. Harrisd and M. Déquée (2011): Climatology of salt transitions and implications for stone weathering, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 409, Issue 13, 1 June 2011, Pages 2577-2585, ISSN 0048-9697, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.03.029

Charola, A. Elena, Christopher McNamara, and Robert J. Koestler (editors): Biocolonization of Stone: Control and Preventative Methods, Proceedings from the MCI Workshop Series. Smithsonian Contributions to Museum Conservation, number 2, 116 pages, 87 figures, 5 tables, 2011, URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10088/16617

Michael Steiger, Kirsten Linnow, Dorothee Ehrhardt, Mandy Rohde(2011): Decomposition reactions of magnesium sulfate hydrates and phase equilibria in the MgSO4-H2O and Na+-Mg2+-Cl--SO42--H2O systems with implications for Mars, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 30 March 2011, ISSN 0016-7037, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.03.038.

Conference "Salts in Cultural Heritage - Challenge for Research and Practice"

The Hornemann Institute held on 3rd to 5 February 2011 in cooperation with the Association of Restoration VDR a conference on the topic "Salts in Cultural Heritage. Challenge for Research and Practice". 180 guests from home and abroad heard three keynote lectures, and they many case studies on salt reduction. Many talks were given by an interdisciplinary team of authors. A particularly intensive exchange among professionals took place in the workshops on the last day.

A conclusion of the conference, see: http://www.hawk-hhg.de/pressestelle/169112_169593.php

The abstracts of the talks are published in the e-publications on the website of the Hornemann Institute: http://www.hornemann-institut.de/german/epubl_tagungen29.php auf

Some conference contributions are available as pdf-files:

• Steffen Laue: Klimastabilisierung und Salzreduzierung in der Krypta von St. Maria im Kapitol in Köln
• Michael Steiger: Kleine Kristalle, große Wirkung: Das schädigende Verhalten von Salzen in porösen Materialien
• Lep Pel.et al: Desalination by Electrokinetics
• Eberhard Wendler: Erfassung und Vermeidung klimarelevanter Sorptions- und Hydratationswechsel bauschädlicher Salzgemische am Beispiel des Musensaals im Augsburger Fuggerhaus
• Markus Eiden: Mineralische Kompressen im Rahmen von Salzverminderungsmaßnahmen an Wandmalereien

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