CHARACTERIZATION OF CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS FROM BATCH EXPERIMENTS

This review outlines the techniques employed in experimental data redu ction and analysis of batch crystallizers. A process description based on batch conservation equations describing population, mass and energ y balances, both in crystal size and volume coordinate, together with appropriate kinetic events represented by phenomenological models and proper boundary conditions should be used in parameter identification. A number of general and useful techniques to extract growth and nucle ation kinetics based on solution-side and solid-side information are r eviewed. Procedures for parameter characterization for the phenomena o f the growth rate dispersion and agglomeration are assessed.