Continuously operated crystallizer mass balance

For a complete description of the crystal size distribution (CSD) in a continuously operated crystallizer it is necessary to quantify the nucleation and growth processes and to apply the three conservation laws of mass, energy and crystal population. The importance of the population balance, in which all particles must be accounted for, has been a central feature in the pioneering work of Randolph and Larson (1962, 1988). 

As with other unit operations the design of crystallizers is based on mass and energy balances. Here, the balances for a continuously operated crystallization apparatus at steady state are formulated for a stirred vessel crystallizer. 

Example 10.7 A solution of sucrose in water is to be separated b. A mass balance on the solvent gives by crystallization in a continuous operation. The solubility of... 

The mass balance for the mass of solvent and solute over a continuously operated evaporation crystallizer is given by Equation 9.6 ... 

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