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Battery metals, from pregnant liquor to sized product

The hydrometallurgy solids toolkit — MSMPR crystallization, thickener/clarifier dewatering, filtration, drying, and granulation with rigorous solids mass balances, on a modern browser canvas.

MSMPR population balance (nucleation + growth)Coe-Clevenger thickener mass balanceMean crystal size from residence time
Pregnant liquor
Crystallizer
Thickener
Filter
Dryer
Clarified
Product

An MSMPR crystallizer feeds a gravity thickener that dewaters the slurry into a dense underflow and clarified overflow, then a filter and dryer finish the solids — on the same canvas you edit in the app.

Thickening + the MSMPR population balance, solved

The thickener closes a solid-liquid mass balance (solids to the dense underflow, clarified liquid over the top); the crystallizer's moment equations give the crystallized fraction and mean crystal size.

n˙s,under=Rn˙s,in,n˙l,under=n˙s,under1fsfs    (thickener)\dot n_{s,under}=R\,\dot n_{s,in},\quad \dot n_{l,under}=\dot n_{s,under}\dfrac{1-f_s}{f_s}\;\;(\text{thickener})
B=kbΔCb,G=kgΔCgB = k_b\,\Delta C^{\,b}, \qquad G = k_g\,\Delta C^{\,g}
Lˉ=m1m0=Gτ,m3=6BG3τ4\bar{L} = \dfrac{m_1}{m_0} = G\tau, \qquad m_3 = 6\,B\,G^3\tau^4

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Crystallizer

MSMPR population balance — nucleation and growth set the mean crystal size.

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Thickener / clarifier

Gravity solid-liquid separation — a Coe-Clevenger mass-balance model.

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Filter

Solids dewatering stage in the filter → dryer finishing train.

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Dryer

Final moisture removal in the solids-handling train.

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Live plant integration

Stream underflow density, crystal size, and moisture tags from your thickener/dryer train into this flowsheet's twin comparison — deviations from the solved solids balance are flagged automatically.

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Try it yourself

  • MSMPR crystallization with crystal-size distribution and yield
  • Thickener / clarifier solid-liquid separation with solids mass balance
  • Solids finishing across filter, dryer, and granulator

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