We have measured homogeneous nucleation rates of water at 200-240 K in the carrier gas helium, in the range of 10(13) - 10(17) m(-3) s(-1) using an expansion wave tube. The rates agree well with the results of Wolk and Strey [J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 11683 (2001)] in the range of overlap (220-240 K), and are summarized by the empirical fit J = S exp[4.6 + 0.244T-(906.8 - 2.914T)(ln S)(2)], with J ...

In order to improve the traditional freezing crystallization process of calcium nitrate in nitric phosphate process, crystal growth experiments by adding Ca(NO3)2·4H2O seeds in supersaturated calcium nitrate solution in a Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) crystallizer were carried out on crystal growth kinetics. The results showed that the growth of C...

An automatic system for growing crystals from seeded supersaturated solutions at constant supersaturation is described. Control of burettes and data acquisition are controlled by computer. The system was tested with a study of the calcium oxalate kinetics of crystal growth.

In this paper, we provide a theoretical basis using thermodynamic stability analysis for explaining the spontaneous nucleation and growth of a high density of 1-D structures of a variety of materials from low-melting metals such as Ga, In, or Sn. The thermodynamic stability analysis provides a theoretical estimate of the extent of supersaturation of solute species in molten metal solvent. Using...

The paper presents an approach to improve the product quality from batch-to-batch by exploiting the repetitive nature of batch processes to update the operating trajectories using process knowledge obtained from previous runs. The data based methodology is focused on using the linear time varying (LTV) perturbation model in an iterative learning control (ILC) framework to provide a convergent b...

We performed molecular dynamics simulations of the nucleation of water vapor in order to test nucleation theories. Simulations were performed for a wide range of supersaturation ratios (S = 3-25) and water temperatures (T(w) = 300-390 K). We obtained the nucleation rates and the formation free energies of a subcritical cluster from the cluster size distribution. The classical nucleation theory ...