A control oriented study on the numerical solution of the population balance equation for crystallization processes

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 4262-4277

  Mesbah, Ali ^a,b   Kramer, Herman J M ^b   Huesman, Adrie E M ^a   Van den Hof, Paul M J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Dynamic simulation; Growth; Nucleation; On line control; Population balance

Indexed keywords

ADVANTAGES AND PITFALLS; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; DYNAMIC MODELING; DYNAMIC POPULATION BALANCE; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; GALERKIN'S TECHNIQUE; GROWTH; HIGH ORDER; INDUSTRIAL CRYSTALLIZATION; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; ON-LINE CONTROL; ON-LINE CONTROLS; ORTHOGONAL COLLOCATION; PARTICULATE PROCESS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; POPULATION BALANCE; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; POPULATION BALANCES; REALISTIC SCENARIO; SIMULATION RESULT; SOLUTION METHODS; TEST PROBLEM; TIME VARYING;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; CRYSTALLIZATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 68949160852     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.06.060     Document Type: Article

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