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Comparative investigation of membrane systems for crystallization and spherical agglomeration

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posted on 2022-06-07, 14:01 authored by Izabela Lackowska, Marijana DragosavacMarijana Dragosavac, Brahim BenyahiaBrahim Benyahia
In this study, two novel spherical agglomeration processes based on membrane systems were successfully implemented to produce spherical agglomerates of benzoic acid crystals obtained by antisolvent crystallization. Two membrane configurations were implemented; a flat disc mounted in a dispersion cell equipped with a mixing impeller, and a second one which uses a cylindrical membrane equipped with a vibrating module which created shear with upward-downward vibration. To optimize the performance of the spherical agglomeration process, the impact of the bridging liquid flowrate, membrane pore size and pore arrangement, as well as agitation rate were investigated. Both systems were successfully used to generate spherical agglomerates with enhanced quality and size distribution at comparable flux conditions. In near future, the membrane systems will be scaled-up to investigate the scalability of the proposed spherical agglomeration system under the optimized operating conditions identified from the current study.

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Loughborough University

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

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Chemistry Proceedings

Volume

9

Issue

1

Source

3rd International Online Conference on Crystals

Publisher

MDPI

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© The Authors

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by MDPI under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Publication date

2022-01-15

Copyright date

2022

eISSN

2673-4583

Language

  • en

Location

Online

Event dates

15th January 2022 - 30th January 2022

Depositor

Dr Brahim Benyahia. Deposit date: 9 March 2022

Article number

2

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