Apparent size-dependent growth in aggregating crystallizers

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 3685-3695

  Ginter, David M ^a,b   Loyalka, Sudarshan K ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b NZ Legacy LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; SIMULATION;

NEWTON'S METHOD;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

EID: 0030187523     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(96)00006-1     Document Type: Article

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