Real-Time Analysis to Evaluate Crystallization Processes

Crystallization is one of the most important unit operations employed by the pharmaceutical, microelectronics, food and fine chemicals industries for the production of solid products with high added value. This operation can be used as a method to perform separation and purification of crystalline compounds such as proteins, polymers, pharmaceuticals, inorganic salts, etc. (Fevotte & Klein, 1995; Feng & Berglund, 2002; Mersmann, 2001; Lewiner et al., 2001; Mullin, 2001; Liotta & Sabesan, 2004; Joung et al., 2005; Pelberg et al., 2005; Derdour et al., 2011).