PROCESS MODELING TOOLS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO PARTICULATE PROCESSES

This paper considers the special problems posed by the modelling and s imulation of particulate processes and analyses the reasons which obst ructed the application of general purpose process modelling tools to t hese processes in the past. It argues that the latest generation of th ese tools is now capable of directly representing and simulating parti culate processes. It outlines the features of one such tool and demons trates its capabilities by applying it to the study of the start-up of a continuous mixed suspension mixed product removal (CMSMPR) crystall ization unit.