| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L69121/01 |
| Title: |
A STUDY OF PRECIPITATION: THE INTEGRATION OF CFD, KINETIC MODELLING & EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION |
| Principal Investigator: |
Nienow, Professor A |
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Chemical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Birmingham |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1998 |
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30 September 2001 |
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206,383
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Precipitation is a common but poorly understood industrial process in which particles of controlled size, size distribution and morphology must be produced to an increasingly tight specification. The process is usually carried out from solution in stirred reactors so that product characteristics depend on a combination of fluid dynamics and the chemistry and kinetics of nucleation and growth. By using advanced CFD modelling based on sliding mesh methodology, the flow and concentration field associated with fed batch precipitation in stirred reactors will be generated. Such solutions are fully predictive and scale independant. These solutions will be combined with user-defined sub-routines of population balances and the kinetics of precipitation as previously developed at UMIST to give crystal number concentration and size as a function of 3-dimensional space and time. This modelling will be validated using a well-characterised system over a range of scales and realistic agitation conditions using LDA, flow visualisation and the precipitate characterisation.
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