Formation of Spherical Agglomerates in Cooling Crystallization of Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine

Autor: Hyoun-Soo Kim, Kee-Kahb Koo, Jae-Kyeong Kim, Jae-Eun Lee
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Chemical Engineering & Technology. 40:2197-2203
ISSN: 0930-7516
DOI: 10.1002/ceat.201700144
Popis: The present work describes the production of spherical agglomerates of Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine(RDX) from acetone by cooling crystallization with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). It was found that PVP suppresses the nucleation of RDX at initial stage, but tremendous nucleation of RDX is occurred abruptly after induction period. The rapid nucleation may be associated with the primary nucleation by the presence of PVP. Thus, it can be concluded that the addition of PVP results in the formation of RDX particles with sufficient number density for spherical agglomeration. It was found that such spherical agglomeration propagates very rapidly after nucleation within a minute and size of spherical agglomerates is affected by cooling rate.
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