Monte Carlo Simulation of Size-Enlargement Mechanisms in Crystallization

AIChE Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1864-1874

  Van Peborgh Gooch, John R ^a   Hounslow, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

POPULATION BALANCE EQUATIONS; POTASSIUM SULFATE; SIZE ENLARGEMENT MECHANISMS;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

EID: 0030190459     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690420708     Document Type: Article

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