Crystallization Technology Handbook
Second Edition
edited by A. Mersmann

This handbook seeks to facilitate 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 Second Edition offers new results on direct-contact cooling crystallization. It lists the properties of over 170 organic and inorganic crystallization systems.

• Explains the basic design procedures for both laboratory and industrial crystallizers
• Delineates optimal duperesaturation
• Describes in detail cooling, evaporative, drowning-out, and reaction crystallization
• Discusses precipitation, mixing, and product quality
• Highlights the economics of the entire crystallization process
• Stresses production values such as size distribution, coefficient of variation, and crystal shape and purity
• Considers the problem of encrustation
• Addressses new process developments, including high-pressure crystallization and freezing
• And much more!

Contents

1. Physical and chemical properties of crystalline systems
2. Activated nucleation
3. Crystal growth
4. Particle size distribution and population balance
5. Attrition and attrition controlled secondary nucleation
6. Agglomeration
7. Quality of crystalline products
8. Design of crystallizers
9. Operation of crystallizers
10. Challenges in, and an overview of, the control of crystallizers
11. Reaction crystallization
12. Tailor-made additives and impurities
13. Suspension crystallization from the melt
14. Layer crystallization and melt solidification
15. Thermal analysis and economics of processes

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