Abstract: The invention is directed to an improvement in operation of wash columns, and more in particular to an apparatus for separating solid particles from a slurry and to a process for separating solid particles from a mother liquor slurry. The apparatus of the invention comprises a wash column (1), which comprises a melting circuit (8,10,11,21), wherein means (22,23) are present to introduce a compound or composition to said wash column between a wash front (6b) formed in said wash column in operation and a product outlet and/or in the melting circuit.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 3, 2012
Publication date:
February 13, 2014
Applicant:
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUUREWET- ENSCHAPPELIJK CONDERZOEK
Inventors:
Dirk Verdoes, Johannes van der Meer, Michiel Nienoord, Michael Sell, Jean-Marie Collard