Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1993, 58, 1839-1847
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19931839

Improved Measurement of the Kinetics of Crystallization in a Batch Experiment

Jaroslav Nývlt and Miloslav Karel

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Abstract

An improved method is described whereby knowledge of the supersaturation course during a run and measurement of the final product crystal size distribution yield the growth rate of crystals and the nucleation rate in a wide range of supersaturations from only a single batch experiment. The evaluation method is refined by the interpolation of experimental data for short intervals of time. The method is illustrated using potassium sulfate crystallization as an example.