Simulation of an industrial sodium chloride (NaCl) crystallization process and applications

Abstract

Crystallization from solution is important industrially because of the variety of materials that are marketed in the crystalline form. To improve the teaching-learning process of this Unit Operation, in this work, performed as a Degree Final Project in Chemical Engineering studies, a simulation program of crystallization has been developed using data of an industrial NaCl crystallization process. The objective was the use of computational tools to simulate and optimize the crystallization, enabling a deeper insight into the crystallization operation and into the use of computational tools.