Modelling of the growth of ammonium sulphate crystals in a DTB crystallizer

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 3919-3929

  O Meadhra R ^a   Van Rosmalen, G M ^a  

^a EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

draft tube baffled crystallizer; dynamic behaviour; growth cell; growth kinetics; on line CSD measurement; size dependent growth

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLIZERS; DYNAMICS; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AMMONIUM SULPHATE; CRYSTAL SIZE DISTRIBUTION; DRAFT TUBE BAFFLED CRYSTALLIZER; FAST GROWERS SLOW GROWERS; GROWTH RATE DISPERSION; RANDOM FLUCTUATION GROWTH; SIZE DEPENDENT GROWTH;

CRYSTAL GROWTH;

EID: 0030209401     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(96)00234-5     Document Type: Article

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