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Abstract

In this work, based on theoretical calculations, had been made for suggesting methods of heating mother liquor in crystallizer for both kinds of evaporative crystallization process. These suggested designs aim to reduce and save the consumption of energy which consequently reduces the operational cost for the two types of crystallization. In the first type, it is found that the direct evaporative crystallization: when a heat pump was added to heat the medium (hot air), it had saved energy consumption range between 81% and 93% at different values of coefficient of performance (COP). While in the second type, the indirect evaporative crystallization, a heat pump was erected along the line containing the mixture of vapor coming from crystallizer and steam coming from jacket outlet, which resulted in a mixture acting as a heat source to the heat pump in order to preheat the inlet steam to the jacket. Calculations of the suggested design showed that the energy consumption can be saved within 8% to 26% at different COP values.

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