Development of Software Tools for Crystallization System Synthesis

摘要

A systematic framework has been developed as part of an effort to expedite the development of crystallization systems. The framework consists of three components: flowsheet synthesis, experimental efforts, and modeling activities. To facilitate the efforts, various software tools have been developed. These include generation of phase diagrams based on thermodynamic calculations, representation of experimental data on phase diagrams, and simulation of particle size distribution of the crystallizer product. The software tools are modular in nature so that engineers in process development can use any of the tools that they like in isolation and add their own in-house tools as appropriate.