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JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 422-432Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2007.09.016
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polymorphism; aqueous solution; solute concentration; anti-solvent
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The precipitation of glycine from aqueous solution was studied using a mixture of supercritical carbon dioxide and ethanol as drying medium and as anti-solvent. Glycine. which has three polymorphs, was precipitated by a direct spraying process using a coaxial nozzle under high pressure. By simple manipulation of the solute concentration, the process could be tuned to selectively precipitate either pure alpha or beta-glycine, as determined by X-ray powder diffraction. When decreasing the solute concentration or increasing the ethanol fraction in the system, the precipitation of the metastable beta-glycine was preferred over the precipitation of alpha-glycine. Modelling of the mass transfer around a drop showed that the ethanol fraction inside the drop can reach significant values, and that the evaporation occurs in less than a second, leaving little space for recrystallisation. Even though the crystal growth rate was extreme (up to 800 mu m/s), the product was crystalline. (C) 2007 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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