MULTIPLICITY IN CONTINUOUS CRYSTALLIZERS: ADIABATIC REACTIVE PRECIPITATION

The application of the theory of both concentration and temperature multiplicities is extended to the case of a reactive precipitation system in a continuous mixed suspension mixed product removal (MSMPR) crystallizer. A process involving elementary homogeneous chemical reaction with first order reaction kinetics with respect to each of the reactive components and subsequent crystallization described by conventional power law growth and power law magma dependent nucleation models is considered; the temperature dependency of each of these kinetics is described by Arrhenius relations. Exact uniqueness and multiplicity (i.e. multiple steady states) criteria are developed. The stability of these steady states is analysed using small perturbations around the steady state