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EPSRC Reference: GR/L75276/01
Title: A STUDY OF PRECIPITATION:THE INTEGRATION OF CFD, KINETIC AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION
Principal Investigator: Garside, Professor J
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Department: Chemical Engineering
Organisation: UMIST
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 September 1997 Ends: 31 May 1999 Value (£): 41,205
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Particle Technology
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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 the 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 methology, the flow and concentration fields 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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