Industrial crystalization from solution: The precipitation of sodium perborate

Methods used in the analysis of an industrial crystallization process are p resented in this article. They are implemented in the development of a popu lation balance based model for the sodium perborate precipitation. The prec ipitation kinetics such as nucleation, growth and agglomeration are estimat ed using a novel estimation procedure, which enables the determination of c rystallization kinetics from the experimental crystal size distributions. T he values obtained for the crystal growth rate agree well with the values d etermined by other authors.