“…The common addition of swelling inhibiting salts such as sodium chloride [40], sodium sulfate [34,41], and calcium chloride [42] to reaction media in the heterogeneous process, that allows the use of more concentrated suspensions, causes problems in treatment of effluents and unfavorable inhibition of granule swelling [43,44]; these problems can be partially overcome by addition of alcohols instead of salts, however in these conditions the reaction becomes slower [45]. Recently glucose and especially sucrose have been investigated as alternative swelling inhibitors with results comparable to sodium sulfate for low DS (0.07) [46].…”