Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1993, 58, 1855-1860
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19931855
Batch Crystallization with Crystals Attrition
Jaroslav Nývlt and Stanislav Žáček
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Abstract
The dependence of the mean crystal size of the products from batch crystallizers on the batch time occasionally exhibits a maximum, which can be explained by secondary nucleation due to the attrition of crystals. A kinetic equatation of nucleation, comprising a term for crystal attrition, can be used for the theoretical description of such behaviour. A mathematical model of a batch crystallizer with crystal attrition has been verified on the calcium sulfate precipitation.
