Comportamento do sistema NaCI-KCI-H2O em cristalização simultânea.

Abstract

the key to overcome the main obstacles of this process: epitaxial growth and secondary nucleation. Some experimental conditions enablesd the obtaining of the batch product in bimodal distributions, where each peak was rich in one salt, with purities higher than 90 %. These fractions of the yield, that can be simultaneously separated by composition and size, were achieve mainly at lower supersaturations and using big KCl and small NaCl seeds. From these results, considering the need to develop energy-less and more environmentally friendly water purification techniques, a membrane crystallization (MC) system was tested using the same model system. The proposed design for the MC enable the operation for over 6 hours with a flux decay around 20 %. Yet, the proposed the yield of simultaneous membrane crystallization has not shown improvements in composition segregation.