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Modeling of Mixing-Precipitation Processes: Agglomeration
Pawel M Orlewski1, Marco Mazzotti1
1ETH Zurich Institute of Process Engineering Sonneggstrasse 3 8092 Zurich Switzerland.
Abstract:
A comprehensive description of the barium sulfate precipitation process in a wide range of supersaturations is presented. By using an additive to stabilize the particles, the decoupling of the primary from the secondary processes, as well as the agglomeration from aggregation was possible. By being able to study the two processes independently, a model describing the agglomeration of barium sulfate in the range of high supersaturations was validated experimentally for the first time. The proposed model has proven to describe the experiments with a high degree of accuracy in the whole range of supersaturations investigated. Additionally, by comparing agglomeration kernels of various complexity, ranges where simplifications are possible were identified, thus enabling the future development of models with better performance.
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