Stochastic approach for the prediction of PSD in nonisothermal antisolvent crystallization processes

Cogoni G;TRONCI, STEFANIA;Mistretta G;BARATTI, ROBERTO;Romagnoli JA

2013-01-01

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Abstract

A stochastic formulation for the description of cooling-antisolvent mediated crystal growth processes based on the Fok- ker-Planck equation is discussed. Previous results are further extended to include not only the additional degree of free- dom (temperature) in the approach, but also to formulate the model parameters dependencies with the input manipulated variables (antisolvent flow rate and temperature) toward a global model to be used within all possible operating regimes. The obtained global models are used to define, for the first time, an operating map of the crystalliza- tion process, where asymptotic isomean and isovariance curves are reported in an antisolvent flow-rate-temperature plane. Input multiplicities are identified and validated both numerically and experimentally for the NaCl-water-ethanol nonisothermal antisolvent crystallization system.