Industrial Crystallization

Alison Lewis is a Professor at the University of Cape Town where she founded the Crystallization and Precipitation Research Unit. She is a registered Professional Engineer, a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering (FSAAE), the South African Institute of Chemical Engineers (FSAIChE) and the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FSAIMM). Marcelo Seckler is an Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo. He has previously been the CEO of the Brazilian Association for Chemical Engineers and the President of the higher council. He is now a member of the higher council. He also has a fellowship in productivity in technology from Brazil's National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Herman Kramer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Process and Energy at Delft University of Technology and he is also a board member of the European Working Party on Industrial Crystallization and organizer of a number of international conferences. Gerda van Rosmalen spent twenty years as Professor of Industrial Crystallization and Clean Technology at the Laboratory for Process Equipment at Delft University of Technology and her distinguished positions include being a Board Member of the Working Party on Industrial Crystallization of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers.

• 1. Thermodynamics, crystallisation methods and supersaturation; 2. Characterisation of a crystalline product; 3. Basic process design for crystallisation; 4. Nucleation; 5. Crystal growth; 6. Agglomeration; 7. The population balance equation; 8. Batch crystallisation; 9. Measurement techniques; 10. Industrial crystallisers; 11. Precipitation; 12. Melt crystallisation; 13. Additives and impurities; 14. Polymorphism.