METHOD FOR SEPARATING SUBSTANCE FROM LIQUID MIXTURE BY CRYSTALLIZATION

    公开(公告)号:JPH09103604A

    公开(公告)日:1997-04-22

    申请号:JP25941896

    申请日:1996-09-30

    Applicant: BASF AG

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dispense with supercooling for starting crystallization by coating the surface of a crystallizer with a seed crystal layer consisting of a soln. of a mixture to be separated and crystals suspended in the soln. before crystallization. SOLUTION: A two-phase seed crystal layer in a form of a suspension of a melt or soln. of a mixture to be separated and crystals of the mixture suspended therein is applied to the surface of a crystallizer wherein crystals are grown during crystallization before crystallization. By cooling the melt or the soln. to be separated in the crystallizer to form crystalls, a suspension is obtained. Subsequently, the crystallizer is emptied to apply the suspension to the surface of the crystallizer and the suspension layer is succeedingly frozen to apply a seed crystal layer. The mixture to be purified is introduced into the crystallizer as the melt or the soln. and, succeedingly, a solid crystal phase is frozen on the cooled surface of the crystallizer. Since the crystal phase is already present as the seed crystal layer at the start time of a crystallization stage, it is unnecessary to perform supercooling.

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