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The first part of this thesis collected ATR-FTIR spectra and built a calibration model, whose regression coefficients were used along with ATR-FTIR spectra to measure the solubility of paracetamol in isopropanol-water solution at various temperatures and solvent ratios, also for further feedback control study. The second part simulated the process of feeding seeds produced by real-time antisolvent crystallization to cooling tank to decouple nucleation and growth. Optimization of the temperature profiles to achieve targeted crystal size distributions was presented as well. 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