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Theory of Particulate Processes: Analysis and Techniques of Continuous Crystallization

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This book and the crystallization model by Randolph and Larson are still the cornerstone of many chemical engineering classes. This makes this work a populous book. This monograph is still useful for technical aspects of continuous crystallization. I found few actual, experimental continuous crystallizations discussed and analyzed in the book.

I own Randolph and Larson's book and have studied it. However, relating experimental results through this model to practical control parameters, like temperature, solubility, addition rate of reactants was not possible. Their excursions to model batch processes suffer from the same restrictions.

Their's is basically a mass-balance model (mass in = mass out) with emphasis of modeling population balance (size distribution). Their model is useful for continuous growth of continuously seeded systems. For nucleation in non-seeded systems, additional concepts are added trying to extend the model beyond the mass-balance concept.
Since the book was published, another more useful model was published which relates the crystallization results to control parameters like reactant addition rate, temperature and solubility of the crystals without arbitrary adjustable parameters.
Considering the caveats, I recommend the book as a reference.