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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2013
Cap Iii B.v., Urmond, NL;
Geert Ekkelenkamp, Urmond, NL;
Johannes Elisabeth Pierre Debeij, Urmond, NL;
Robert Geertman, Urmond, NL;
Peter Van Ysacker, Urmond, NL;
Johan Thomas Tinge, Urmond, NL;
CAP III B.V., Urmond, NL;
Abstract
The present invention provides a continuous process for producing ammonium sulfate crystals, wherein said process comprises: i) feeding to a series of crystallization sections, which crystallization sections are heat integrated in series, a solution of ammonium sulfate; ii) crystallizing ammonium sulfate crystals from said solution of ammonium sulfate; iii) purging a fraction of the solution of ammonium sulfate from each of said crystallization sections; and iv) discharging ammonium sulfate crystals from each crystallization section, characterized in that: a fraction of said solution of ammonium sulfate is purged from at least one crystallization section to at least one other crystallization section; and an apparatus suitable for producing ammonium sulfate crystals.