Spontaneous crystallization of potassium chloride from aqueous and aqueous-ethanol solutions; Part 3: Model of the crystallization process

摘要

A model of spontaneous crystallization process was proposed. The model describes kinetics of the crystallization process after the end of the induction period. To test the model the published earlier data on crystallization and aggregation kinetics of potassium chloride at its spontaneous crystallization from supersaturated aqueous and aqueous-ethanol solutions were used. It was found excellent coincidence of the experimental and theoretical data on concentration of the salt and the total number of crystals in solution at crystallization. Somewhat change for the worse was at the theoretical calculations of crystal size distribution at the end of the crystallization process. It indicated that the ways of calculation of size of crystals and their weight fraction in deposit were very approximate. The model allows predicting with satisfactory accuracy kinetics of crystallization using such general parameters of potassium chloride as the specific surface energy and the height of the nucleus-bridges between crystals at coalescence. It needs further test of the model for other salts. (C) 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.