화학공학소재연구정보센터
Chemical Engineering & Technology, Vol.30, No.11, 1576-1583, 2007
Reaction-crvstallization of struvite in a continuous liquid et-pump DTM MSM PR crystallizer with upward circulation of suspension in a mixing chamber - an SDG kinetic approach
The experimental results concerning kinetic aspects of struvite precipitation in a continuous DTM-type crystallizer with internal circulation of suspension forced by a liquid jet-pump are presented and discussed. Nucleation and crystal growth rates of struvite during reaction-crystallization processes in diluted water solutions of magnesium, ammonium, and phosphate ions were identified. Kinetic parameters were calculated. on the basis of population density distributions adopting a simplified model of the mass crystallization process in a MSMPR crystallizer taking under consideration size-dependent growth (SDG) mechanism. The Rojkowski hyperbolic SDG model has proved to be the equation best statistically fitted to our own data set.