Stochastic approach for the calculation of anti-solvent addition policies in crystallization operations: An application to a bench-scale semi-batch crystallizer

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1797-1810

  Galán, Omar ^a   Grosso, Massimiliano ^b   Baratti, Roberto ^b   A Romagnoli, José ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anti solvent; Control; Crystallization; Fokker Planck equation; Logistic equation; Mean crystal size; Modelling

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SOLVENT; ANTI-SOLVENTS; CLOSED-LOOP; CRYSTAL GROWTH MODEL; CRYSTAL SIZE; CRYSTAL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; EXPERIMENTAL BENCH; INTERPOLATING FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PIECE-WISE; POPULATION BALANCES; RANDOM FLUCTUATION; SEMI-BATCH; SEMI-BATCH OPERATIONS; SET-POINT; START-UP CONDITIONS; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; STRATEGY USE;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLIZERS; ETHANOL; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIMING JITTER;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

EID: 75849156166     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.11.023     Document Type: Article

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