A new view on the metastable zone width during cooling crystallization

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 72, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-19

  Kadam, Somnath S ^a   Kulkarni, Samir A ^a   Coloma Ribera, Roger ^a   Stankiewicz, Andrzej I ^a   ter Horst, Joop H ^a   Kramer, Herman J M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Batch crystallization; Metastable zone width; Particulate processes; Pharmaceuticals; Single nucleus mechanism; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

BATCH CRYSTALLIZATION; CONSTANT COOLING RATE; COOLING CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; METASTABLE ZONE WIDTH; MODEL SYSTEM; NUCLEATION RATE; OPERATING WINDOWS; PARTICULATE PROCESS; POPULATION BALANCE MODELS; POPULATION BALANCES; PRIMARY NUCLEATION; PROCESS WINDOW; PRODUCT QUALITY; SATURATION TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTIC MODELING; VOLUME DEPENDENCY;

DRUG PRODUCTS; ETHANOL;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 84856153403     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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