CFD simulations for analysis and scale-up of anti-solvent crystallization

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3621-3625

  Liu, Xiaomin ^a   Hatziavramidis, Dimitri ^a   Arastoopour, Hamid ^a   Myerson, Allan S ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Crystallization; Design of experiments; Mixing; Scale up

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749486532     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10962     Document Type: Article

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