Aluminum trihydroxide crystals

Characterization of Aluminum Trihydroxide Crystals Precipitated from Caustic Solutions... 

Probably the simplest laboratory batch crystallizer was described by Misra and White (1971). Kinetics of the crystallization of aluminum trihydroxide from caustic aluminate solutions were studied in a 5 1 round-bottomed Bask equipped with a stirrer, thermometer, and a sampling tube (Figure 10.1). The crystallizer was immersed in a constant-temperature bath. 

Figure 10.1 Laboratory batch crystallizer. (Reproduced by permission of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 1971 AIChE from Kinetics of Crystallization of Aluminum Trihydroxide from Seeded Caustic Aluminate Solutions, Misra, C., and White, E.T., CEP Symposium Series, vol. 67, no. 110, pp. 53-65 (1971).)...

Cumulative CSD Method. Misra and White (1971) used a cumulative CSD method to study the crystallization kinetics of aluminum trihydroxide from a seeded batch crystallizer. The population balance equation corresponding to Eq. (10.3) can be written as... 

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