Minimum seed crystal size for secondary nucleation of potassium alum in a stirred-vessel crystallizer.

Crystal size distribution in metamorphic rocks: an example for the relationship between nucleation and growth rates with overstepping

Crystal size distribution (CSD) in metamorphic rocks provide fundamental information about crystal nucleation and growth rate, growth time and the degree of overstepping. CSD data for garnet, staurolite, kyanite and andalusite crystals from the aureole demonstrate that the earliest formed of these minerals, garnet, has the highest population density and the shortest growth time. The last formed...

Determination of Crystal Growth Rate and Morphology of Barium Carbonate Crystals in a Semi-batch Crystallizer

A semi-batch crystallization system is used to determine growth kinetics and morphology of barium carbonate crystals, under a constant pH value and constant temperature in the various relative supersaturations. Results show that crystal growth rate satisfies a first-order kinetic expression at high relative supersaturation, while at relative supersaturation values lower than 3,  the k...

Effect of Different Nucleation and Growth Kinetic Terms on Modeling Results of KNO3 CMSMPR Crystallizer

Contribution of crystal-impeller and crystal-crystal collisions to secondary nucleation

A secondary nucleation model mainly based on the findings of Ottens (1973) and Evans (1974) considering both crystal-impeller collisions and crystal-crystal collisions was investigated using experimental data obtained from two crystallizers, a 22-liter Draft Tube (DT) crystallizer and an 1100-liter Draft Tube Baffled (DTB) crystallizer, which are both operated continuously in an evaporative mod...

Vortex nucleation in a stirred Bose-Einstein condensate.

We studied the nucleation of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate stirred by a laser beam. The vortex cores were observed using time-of-flight absorption imaging. Depending on the stirrer size, either discrete resonances or a broad response was visible as the stir frequency was varied. Stirring beams small compared to the condensate size generated vortices below the critical rotation frequenc...