Crystallization Technology Handbook

by A. Mersmann (Editor)

Overview

This handbook facilitates the selection, design and operation of large-scale industrial crystallizers that process crystals with the proper size distribution, shape and purity sought - including cooling, evaporation, drowning-out reaction, melt, and related crystallization techniques. This new edition offers new results on direct-contact cooling crystallization. It lists the properties of over 170 organic and inorganic crystallization systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824705282
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/08/2001
Edition description:	2ND, REVISED & EXPANDED
Pages:	846
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Physical and chemical properties of crystalline systems; activated nucleation; crystal growth; particle size distribution and population balance; attrition and attrition controlled secondary nucleation; agglomeration; quality of crystalline products; design of crystallizers; operation of crystallizers; challenges in, and an overview of, the control of crystallizers; reaction crystallization; tailor-made additives and impurities; suspension crystallization from the melt; layer crystallization and melt solidification; thermal analysis and economics of processes.

Editorial Reviews

...recommended as a technical manual for college and academic libraries with chemical engineering collections.

E-Streams

In a unified multi-author handbook rather than a collection of articles, contributors from industry and academia in Europe, Israel, the US, and Japan provide information not only on the science of crystallization from solution and from melt, but also on the basic design methods for laboratories and especially industrial crystallizers. They take into account relevant crystallization phenomena and such chemical engineering processes as fluid dynamics, multiphase flow, and heat and mass transfer. A main concern is scaling up laboratory experiments for obtaining kinetic data into industrial production facilities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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