Book description
This ready reference and handbook draws on the experience and expertise
of a large group of experts in the various areas of industrial
crystallization processes, capturing the essence of current trends, the
markets, design tools and technologies in this key field. Along the way,
it outlines trouble free production, provides laboratory controls,
analyses case studies and discusses new challenges.
The first part of the book presents the instrumentation and techniques
used to measure the crystal size distribution, the nucleation point and
solubility point, and the chemical composition of the solid and liquid
phase. The second part describes the main techniques adopted to control
industrial crystallizers, starting from fundamental approaches to the
most advanced ones, including the multivariable predictive control. An
overview of the main crystallizer types is given with details of the
main control schemes adopted in industry as well as the more suitable
sensors and actuators.
The contents are tailor-made for readers facing the threshold challenges
between research and commercial applications.
Angelo Chianese is full Professor of Chemical Plant Design at the
University of Rome La Sapienza. He worked as a process engineer for the
first 10 years of his working life, before joining academia. Prof.
Chianese has more than 30 years in the field of industrial crystallization.
In this respect, he collaborated with the major academic laboratories
all over the world and major industrial companies. Between 1998 and 2001
he was the coordinator of the European Thematic Network on Industrial
Crystallization (acronym. CRYSOPT) and since 1990 was partner in many
European projects. He is one of the two Italian delegates at the
European Working Party on Crystallization.
Herman J. M. Kramer is associate professor at the Delft University of
Technology, The Netherlands, working on the design, monitoring and
control of crystallization and precipitation processes. He headed a
large number of international multi client, multidisciplinary, research
projects on design, monitoring and control of industrial
crystallization. He was president of the Dutch Association of Crystal
growth and is nowadays member of the European Working Party of
Industrial Crystallization.
