Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Sucrose Crystallisation from Pure Solution at Different Initial Supersaturations

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2010

Authors

Issam A. Khaddour (Author) FEUP; Luís S. M. Bento (Author) FEUP; António M. A. Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Fernando A. N. Rocha (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Surface Science

Vol. 604 No. 13

Pages: 1208-1214

ISSN: 0039-6028

Publisher: Elsevier

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Chemical engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Chemical engineering

Other information

DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2010.04.005

Abstract (EN): Growth rates of sucrose crystallization from pure solutions of initial relative supersaturation levels between 0.094 and 0.181 were studied in agitated crystallizer at 313.13 K. Birth and spread model was applicable for the obtained growth rate data in this range of supersaturation and used to estimate the principal growth parameters. The estimated interfacial free energy varied inversely with supersaturation from 0.00842 to 0.00461 J/m(2), respectively. The obtained kinetic coefficient changed with the initial supersaturation from 9.45 x 10(-5) to 2.79 x 10(-7) m/s. The corresponding radius of the 2D (two dimensional) critical nucleus varied from 7.47 x 10(-9) to 1.46 x 10(-9) m. Predominance of surface integration or volume diffusion mechanism during the growth process was assessed using the calculated activation free energies of the 2D nucleation process. An acceptable confirmation of the calculated radius of the critical 2D nucleus was found using atomic force microscopy (AFM) technique. The calculated interfacial free energy between the saturated sucrose solution and the crystal surface was found to be 0.02325 J/m(2). (C)

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific