Thursday, August 16, 2007

Industrial Application of Crystallization

Crystallization is one of oldest unit operation is chemical & process engineering. In pharmaceutical , food, fertilizer ... etc industries crystallization is widely used. In pharmaceutical & food industry the purity of crystals are highly important while some of other industries need crystal size & quantity. There are many equipments available in industry.

  • Tank crystallizers
  • Scraped surface crystallizers
  • Double-pipe scraped surface crystallizer
  • Circulating-liquid evaporator-crystallizer
  • Circulating-magma vacuum crystallizer
These are some of equipments which is found in industries.




This video shows the formation of sugar crystals



This video shows a suger factory which is a good example for application of crystalline process.

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