Supercritical carbon dioxide+ethanol mixtures for the antisolvent micronization of hydrosoluble materials

► High pressure carbon dioxide+ethanol expanded liquid mixtures. ► Well defined and non-coalescing microparticles and nanoparticles. ► Hydrosoluble proteins successfully processed by a new antisolvent process. In this work, a new modification of the supercritical carbon dioxide antisolvent precipita...

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Published in:Chemical engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996) Switzerland : 1996), 2012-04, Vol.187, p.401-409
Main Authors: De Marco, Iolanda, Reverchon, Ernesto
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acetates
Applied sciences
Bovine serum albumin
carbon
Carbon dioxide
Chemical engineering
Concentration (composition)
Ethanol
Ethyl alcohol
Exact sciences and technology
Expanded liquid antisolvent process
Hydrosoluble proteins
Injectors
Nanoparticles
particle size distribution
Precipitation
washing
yttrium
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Summary:► High pressure carbon dioxide+ethanol expanded liquid mixtures. ► Well defined and non-coalescing microparticles and nanoparticles. ► Hydrosoluble proteins successfully processed by a new antisolvent process. In this work, a new modification of the supercritical carbon dioxide antisolvent precipitation (SAS) process has been used to allow the processing of hydrosoluble compounds; carbon dioxide mixtures with ethanol, used at expanded liquid conditions, allowed to produce micro and nanoparticles of two model water-soluble materials: yttrium acetate (YAc) and bovine serum albumin (BSA). The effect of the process parameters, such as composition of the antisolvent, concentration of the aqueous solution, washing time and injector diameter on the morphology and on the dimensions of the precipitates was investigated. Selecting the appropriate operating conditions, spherical non-coalescing particles were produced. In particular, BSA microparticles with narrow particle size distributions and the mean diameter in the range 0.5–2μm and BSA nanoparticles with a mean diameter down to 0.19μm were produced.
ISSN:1385-8947
1873-3212
DOI:10.1016/j.cej.2012.01.135