Industrial Crystallization: Process Simulation Analysis and Design

✍ Scribed by Narayan S. Tavare (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 550
• Series: The Springer Chemical Engineering Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Incorporating all recent developments and applications of crystallization technology, this volume offers a clear account of the field's underlying principles, reviews of past and current research, and provides guidelines for equipment and process design. The book takes a balanced functional approach in its critical survey of research literature, and includes several problems based on real practical situations that illustrate theoretical development. Several new concepts and techniques used in process simulation and identification analysis are featured.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Thermodynamic Aspects....Pages 9-56
Crystallization Kinetics....Pages 57-78
Crystal Size Distribution....Pages 79-92
Batch Crystallizer....Pages 93-139
Characterization of Crystallization Kinetics from Batch Experiments....Pages 141-198
Semibatch Crystallizer....Pages 199-246
Continuous Crystallizers....Pages 247-302
Growth Rate Dispersion....Pages 303-351
Mixing....Pages 353-414
Crystallizer Design and Operation....Pages 415-463
Crystallization Techniques and Phenomena....Pages 465-499
Back Matter....Pages 501-527

✦ Subjects

Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering