Numerical approximations of a population balance model for coupled batch preferential crystallizers

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 739-753

  Qamar, S ^a   Angelov, I ^b   Elsner, M P ^b   Ashfaq, A ^a   Seidel Morgenstern, A ^b   Warnecke, G ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coupled crystallizers; Fines dissolution; High resolution schemes; Method of characteristics; Nucleation and growth; Population balance models; Preferential crystallization of enantiomers

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; ENANTIOMERS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODEL STRUCTURES; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; NUCLEATION; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STAINLESS STEEL;

COUPLED CRYSTALLIZERS; FINES DISSOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SCHEMES; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; POPULATION BALANCE MODELS; PREFERENTIAL CRYSTALLIZATION OF ENANTIOMERS;

CRYSTALLIZERS;

EID: 58249083360     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnum.2008.03.033     Document Type: Article

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