Design of Laboratory Scale Prototype of Hydrothermal Crystallizer

• Main Author: Mohd Nazri Bin Me, Mohd Nazri
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2008
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/915/1/mohd_nazri_b_me.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/915/

For this project, have been decided that the crystal growth cell will totally be made from glass and will have a separated disc at the middle to separate two compartments. The separated area is to create the convection movement inside the cell and to help in producing the crystal. In this report, I will discuss more about the convection movement. I have also included some useful information about the benefit of the crystals in several fields. This project can be commercialized and the income is quite good. The crystallization cell is a glass cylinder, fitted with two water jackets each connected to a thermostat and a submersible pump. The diameter of the cylinder is about 10 cm. And the height of the cylinder is about 20 cm. The cylinder has two compartments separated by a separating disc. The separating disc has 2% holes on it, which the hole area is 1mm. It connected to the submersible pump, at the top compartment and to the thermostat bath at the bottom one.