creator Kozyuk, Oleg V. creator Myerson, Allan S. creator Weinberg, Roger A device and process for crystallizing a compound using hydrodynamic cavitation comprising the steps of mixing at least one stream of a feed solution of such compound to be crystallized with at least one stream of an anti-solvent in a nucleating section via collision of the feed solution and the anti-solvent, passing the mixed streams at an elevated pressure through at least one local constriction of flow to create hydrodynamic cavitation thereby causing nucleation and the production of seed crystals, passing the fluid stream containing the seed crystals through an intermediate section to a crystal growth section, passing the fluid stream containing the seed crystals through the crystal growth section at an elevated pressure through at least one local constriction of flow to create hydrodynamic cavitation thereby causing further crystallization of the compound contained in the solution. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-03-20T15:33:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 7314516.pdf: 187045 bytes, checksum: f501fc549d039069d84a8bf75de9b069 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-20T15:33:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7314516.pdf: 187045 bytes, checksum: f501fc549d039069d84a8bf75de9b069 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-01-01 Five Star Technologies, Inc. Illinois Institute of Technology 2009-05-19 2008-01-01 7,314,516 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2657 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access