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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH & DESIGN
Volume 88, Issue 12A, Pages 1615-1623Publisher
INST CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2010.04.006
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Adductive crystallization; Bisphenol-A; Modeling; Parameter estimation
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- Iranian National Petrochemical Company (NPC-RT)
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Kinetics of adductive crystallization of bisphenol-A (SPA) from a pure phenolic solution was investigated by model fitting to experimental data. BPA is an organic compound with vast applications in manufacturing of epoxy resins and polycarbonates; and adductive crystallization is used in industry to separate SPA from the reaction mixture of BPA synthesis. Using kinetic equations and mass and population balances the adductive crystallization process of BPA. was modeled. Solid and liquid information was obtained from a set of crystallization experiments carried out under a cooling program. A genetic algorithm was applied to optimize the kinetic parameters of nucleation and growth rate equations. The nucleation rate equation for crystallization of BPA-phenol adduct from a pure synthetic solution was B(0) = 8.75 x 10(17) exp(-10900/RT)(Delta C)(2.8)M(T)(1.17), where B(0) is the nucleation rate, Delta C is the supersaturation, and M(T) is the slurry density. The growth rate equation suggested was G = 5.72 x 10(13) exp(-10400/RT)(Delta C)(2.7), where G is the growth rate of adduct particles. Fitting model predictions to experimental data demanded no addition of agglomeration terms to population balance equation which suggests an insignificant mechanism of agglomeration in particle enlargement. The nucleation and growth rate equations obtained in this study may be used to enhance the product quality of BPA plants. (C) 2010 The Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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