Forced circulation crystallizer for evaporative crystallization
Optimize your crystallization processes with a robust solution designed for efficient handling of viscous media and evaporative salts, ensuring controlled nucleation and production of high-purity crystalline products.
Handles Crystallization and Evaporation for Diverse Industries
The Qafco FC Forced Circulation Crystallizer offers robust solutions for chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Known for its simple yet efficient design, it excels in crystallization and evaporation processes, effectively handling sodium chloride, ammonium sulfate, citric acid, and more. Utilizing a high mechanical energy input, it effectively manages viscous media and aids in nucleation. Its MSMPR design supports continuous operations, achieving high-quality separation and uniform crystal growth. Equipped with axial-flow propeller pumps, it ensures optimal circulation and heat exchange. Customizable with single or double loop installation, and built from corrosion-resistant materials, it promises longevity. The system integrates smoothly into existing production lines, offering PLC control for automation. Additionally, it minimizes downtime with advanced surface treatment and effective flushing concepts, ensuring high operational efficiency.
Benefits
- Enhances product purity with integrated salt leg for precise crystallization.
- Minimizes operational downtime through reliable flushing and surface treatment.
- Facilitates energy-efficient operation with superheating and optimal circulation.
- Delivers consistent product quality with high secondary nucleation rates.
- Seamlessly integrates into existing lines with customizable configurations.
- Applications
- Chemical compounds,Crystalline products,Viscous media products,Food ingredients,Chemical solutions,Minerals,Evaporative salts
- End products
- Sodium chloride,Magnesium chloride,Silicon dioxide,Calcium chloride,Ammonium sulfate,Aluminum sulfate,Phosphate salts,Zinc sulfate,Sodium sulfate,Urea,Sodium bicarbonate,Potassium sulfate,Citric acid,Corn syrup solids,Crystalline sugar
- Steps before
- Evaporative crystallization preparation,Initial pumping and circulation setup
- Steps after
- Condensate quality control,Product purity enhancement,Packing,Storage
- Input ingredients
- viscous media,slurry,solvent,superheated liquid
- Output ingredients
- crystals,evaporated solvent,condensate
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Nucleation rate
- Elevated secondary nucleation rate
- Crystal size
- Limited to <0.8mm
- Design type
- MSMPR (mixed suspension,mixed product removal)
- Solubility curve
- Flat or inverse solubility
- Installation
- Single or double loop
- Inlet type
- Central pipe or tangential
- Energy input
- High mechanical energy input
- Pump type
- Axial-flow propeller
- Thermal energy source
- Heat exchanger
- Heating options
- Live steam or waste heat
- Mechanism
- MSMPR (mixed suspension,mixed product removal)
- Secondary nucleation rate
- High
- Installation Type
- Single loop / double loop
- Operation
- Evaporative Crystallization
- Crystal Size Limitation
- <0.8mm
- Scaling Minimization
- Surface treatment and reliable flushing
- Energy Input
- High mechanical energy input
- Operation Type
- Batch
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Crystallizer Type
- FMixed suspension-mixed product removal (MSMPR)
- Crystallizer vessel size
- Customizable
- Circulation loop type
- Single or Double loop
- Inlet type
- Central pipe or Tangential
- Installation footprint
- Compact
- Heat exchanger type
- External
- Piping configuration
- Interconnected
- Pump type
- Axial-flow propeller
- Surface treatment
- Scaling resistant
- Single loop or double loop installation
- Single / Double
- Central pipe or tangential inlets
- Central / Tangential