Handbook of Industrial Crystallization. Third edition. Edited by Allan S. Myerson, Deniz Erdemir and Alfred Y. Lee. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 538. Price GBP 145 (hardcover). ISBN 9780521196185.

crystallization.Chapters 1-6 deal with basic and fundamental aspects in the special field of industrial crystallization.Crystal growth means here in particular growth from various types of solutions.Chapter 1: Solutions and Solution Properties.The first chapter provides a very good survey of important two-and multicomponent solutions related to crystal growth processes.A wide variety of solubility in various solvents as well as large differences of solubility of inorganic components in water is highlighted.Other topics are solubility in mixed solvents, supersaturation and metastability.Fundamental thermal properties affect the energy transfer during the change of temperature in active crystallizers.Chapter 2: Crystals and Crystal Growth.This contains basic concepts of crystals and a short introduction to the seven crystal systems and Bravais lattices.Mentioned are some defects in perfect crystals like Frenkel and Schottky defects.More space should have been given to the discussion of defects in order to help readers understand the principles of crystal growth phenomena.Defects often play a major part in the quality and size of crystals.A broad intense description of morphology of crystals, including morphological prediction of the expected shape of crystals, is given Chapter 3: Crystal Nucleation.This chapter is concentrated on crystallization from solutions.A basis for the formation of a nucleus by homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation is given.Intensively discussed are the origin of secondary nucleation, its nucleation phenomena, nucleation kinetics and control of nucleation.Chapter 4: The Influence of Impurities and Additives on Crystallization.Strategies to improve the purification and the quality of the resulting crystals are important.The authors describe in detail the influence of foreign species on the growth rate and crystal properties.Chapter 5: Molecular Modeling Applications in Crystallization.Described are different computational nucleation methods to analyse crystal structures, and to predict morphology and polymorphism.Moreover, these methods are used to solve crystal structures from X-ray powder diffraction data.Chapter 6: Crystallization Process Analysis by Population Balance Modeling.In order to obtain e.g. an appropriate particle size distribution within the crystallization process, the authors use mathematical models of population balance.Chapter 7: Selection and Design of Industrial Crystallizers.The authors describe performance criteria in connection with several crystallization methods, which may lead to the design of crystallizers.The configurations of crystallizers strongly influence the product quality.An overview of the main crystallizer types with their characteristics is given.Chapter 8: Precipitation Processes.The authors describe the complex process of precipitation with very small crystals.The particle concentration is usually between 1011 and 1017 particles per cubic centimetre and the crystal size between 0.1 and 100 mm.Physical and thermodynamic properties providing the driving force for precipitation are discussed.The kinetics of primary and secondary nucleation play an important role.Chapter 9: Melt Crystallization.The benefit of melt growth is that heat transfer is the dominating process, whereas in solution growth mass transfer is the most important