Crystallization of aluminium hydroxide from the reactive NaAl(OH)4-NaHCO3 solution: Experiment and modeling

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4906-4912

  Li, Yan ^a   Zhang, Yifei ^a   Yang, Chao ^a   Chen, Libin ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Gibbsite; MSMPR; Nucleation; Population balance; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION KERNEL; ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE; BASAL FACES; FOUR-ORDER; GIBBSITE; GIBBSITE AGGLOMERATION; GIBBSITES; LINEAR GROWTH RATE; MAGMA DENSITY; MORPHOLOGY ANALYSIS; NUCLEATION RATE; POPULATION BALANCES; REACTIVE SYSTEM; RELATIVE SUPER-SATURATION; RESIDENCE TIME; SECONDARY NUCLEATION; SEM; SODIUM ALUMINATE SOLUTION; SODIUM BICARBONATES; SPIRAL GROWTH; SURFACE ENTROPIES; VOLUME GROWTH; XRD;

AGGLOMERATION; ALUMINUM; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; GROWTH RATE; NUCLEATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SODIUM;

GROWTH KINETICS;

EID: 77954383068     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.05.042     Document Type: Article

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