Recent advances in the monitoring, modelling and control of crystallization systems

ZK Nagy, G Fevotte, H Kramer, LL Simon - Chemical Engineering Research …, 2013 - Elsevier
Crystallization is one of the most important unit operations used for the separation and
purification of crystalline solid products. Appropriate design and control of the crystallization …

Crystal shape engineering

MA Lovette, AR Browning, DW Griffin… - Industrial & …, 2008 - ACS Publications
In an industrial crystallization process, crystal shape strongly influences end-product quality
and functionality, as well as downstream processing. In addition, nucleation events, solvent …

Measurement, modelling, and closed-loop control of crystal shape distribution: Literature review and future perspectives

CY Ma, JJ Liu, XZ Wang - Particuology, 2016 - Elsevier
Crystal morphology is known to be of great importance to the end-use properties of crystal
products, and to affect down-stream processing such as filtration and drying. However, it has …

Seeded Crystallization of β-l-Glutamic Acid in a Continuous Oscillatory Baffled Crystallizer

NEB Briggs, U Schacht, V Raval… - … Process Research & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A continuously seeded l-glutamic acid cooling crystallization process, in a continuous
oscillatory baffled crystallizer, was designed and operated to deliver control over …

Modification of crystal shape through deep temperature cycling

M Jiang, X Zhu, MC Molaro, ML Rasche… - Industrial & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The evolution of particle shape is an important consideration in many industrial
crystallizations. This article describes the design of temperature-cycling experiments …

Precision measurement of the growth rate and mechanism of ibuprofen {001} and {011} as a function of crystallization environment

TTH Nguyen, RB Hammond, KJ Roberts, I Marziano… - …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The crystallisation of ibuprofen under diffusion-limited conditions measured as a function of
supersaturation, solvent (95% ethanol/water, ethyl acetate, acetonitrile and toluene) and …

Model identification of crystal facet growth kinetics in morphological population balance modeling of L-glutamic acid crystallization and experimental validation

CY Ma, XZ Wang - Chemical engineering science, 2012 - Elsevier
Morphological population balance (PB) modeling of crystallization processes predicts the
dynamic evolution of shape distribution of crystals grown from solution. It requires growth …

In situ particle size estimation for crystallization processes by multivariate image analysis

D Sarkar, XT Doan, Z Ying, R Srinivasan - Chemical Engineering Science, 2009 - Elsevier
Crystal size estimation from in situ images has received attention recently as a means to
estimate product properties in real-time. In this paper, an automated image analysis strategy …

Aspect ratio distribution and chord length distribution driven modeling of crystallization of two-dimensional crystals for real-time model-based applications

B Szilagyi, ZK Nagy - Crystal Growth & Design, 2018 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) crystals, for which the shape is described by two linear sizes, are
common in fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Since the crystal size and shape …

Efficient numerical schemes for multidimensional population balance models

PK Inguva, RD Braatz - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Multidimensional population balance models (PBMs) describe chemical and biological
processes having a distribution over two or more intrinsic properties (such as size and age …