Use of a fiber-optic turbidity probe to monitor and control commercial-scale unseeded batch crystallizations

Organic Process Research and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 114-124

  Harner, Richard S ^a   Ressler, Roberta J ^a   Briggs, Roger L ^a   Hitt, James E ^a   Larsen, Paul A ^a   Frank, Timothy C ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 61449156464     PISSN: 10836160     EISSN: 1520586X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/op8001504     Document Type: Article

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