Modeling of crystal growth and nucleation rates for pentaerythritol batch crystallization

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1356-1364

  Bernardo, A ^a   Giulietti, M ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b Federal Institute of São Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Industrial crystallization; Method of Moments; Pentaerythritol; Scale down

Indexed keywords

AGITATION SPEED; BATCH COOLING; BATCH CRYSTALLIZATION; COOLING RATES; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; DISSIPATED POWER; IMPELLER TIP SPEED; INDUSTRIAL CRYSTALLIZATION; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; KINETICS OF CRYSTALLIZATION; LEAST SQUARES; MEASUREMENT OF PARTICLES; NUCLEATION RATE; PENTAERYTHRITOL; REACTOR TEMPERATURES; SCALE-DOWN; SECOND MOMENTS; SECONDARY NUCLEATION; SEED MASS; SEED SIZE;

COOLING; CRYSTAL GROWTH; EXPERIMENTS; GROWTH KINETICS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TURBIDITY;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

EID: 77957292425     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2009.07.019     Document Type: Article

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