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A Review of the Crystallization of Sugar

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A brief review is given on the relations necessary to model a sugar crystallizer. These include relations for solubility, the nucleation limit, and growth rates.

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White, E.T. (2000). A Review of the Crystallization of Sugar. In: Gupta, B.S., Ibrahim, S. (eds) Mixing and Crystallization. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2290-2_28

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