Optimum reactor configuration for prevention of gypsum scaling during continuous sulphuric acid neutralization

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 269-278

  Adams, Jeffrey F ^a   Papangelakis, Vladimiros G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcium sulphate; Gypsum; Hydrometallurgy; Population Balance Model (PBM); Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; HYDROMETALLURGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SULFURIC ACID; SUPERSATURATION;

CALCIUM SULPHATE; POPULATION BALANCE MODELS (PBM); SULPHURIC ACID NEUTRALIZATION;

GYPSUM;

EID: 35448975725     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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