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Enhanced distribution kinetics in liquid-liquid extraction by CO2-expanded solvents

Cunico, Larissa P. LU ; Sun, Mingzhe LU ; Rui, Yu ; Ghirmai, Semhar ; Enekvist, Markus ; Lundegard, Simon ; Sandahl, Margareta LU and Turner, Charlotta LU orcid (2020) In Journal of Supercritical Fluids 163.
Abstract

Liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) is a useful extraction technique for highly complex samples, however, it suffers from being slow due to mass transfer limitations. Carbon dioxide expanded liquids (CXL) is a good replacement of traditional organic solvents for extraction, and for the first time, the use of CXL in LLE was evaluated. An equipment consisting of a high-pressure view cell with on-line gas chromatography analysis was built and validated, and thereafter used to obtain novel phase equilibria data of the CO2/n-octanol/water system. The system was connected on-line to HPLC to study the potential of CO2-expanded liquid-liquid extraction (CXLLE) of pharmaceutical contaminants in water. In comparison with... (More)

Liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) is a useful extraction technique for highly complex samples, however, it suffers from being slow due to mass transfer limitations. Carbon dioxide expanded liquids (CXL) is a good replacement of traditional organic solvents for extraction, and for the first time, the use of CXL in LLE was evaluated. An equipment consisting of a high-pressure view cell with on-line gas chromatography analysis was built and validated, and thereafter used to obtain novel phase equilibria data of the CO2/n-octanol/water system. The system was connected on-line to HPLC to study the potential of CO2-expanded liquid-liquid extraction (CXLLE) of pharmaceutical contaminants in water. In comparison with traditional LLE performed under similar experimental conditions, the addition of CO2 as a viscosity-lowering entrainer significantly increased the speed of mass transfer. Changes in compound log D (octanol-water distribution ratio) values brought by the CO2 expansion also proved the possibility of selectivity-tuning in CXLLE.

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CO-expandend solvents, Distribution kinetics, liquid-liquid extraction, phase equilibria
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Journal of Supercritical Fluids
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163
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104874
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Elsevier
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0896-8446
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10.1016/j.supflu.2020.104874
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  author       = {{Cunico, Larissa P. and Sun, Mingzhe and Rui, Yu and Ghirmai, Semhar and Enekvist, Markus and Lundegard, Simon and Sandahl, Margareta and Turner, Charlotta}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Journal of Supercritical Fluids}},
  title        = {{Enhanced distribution kinetics in liquid-liquid extraction by CO<sub>2</sub>-expanded solvents}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.supflu.2020.104874}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.supflu.2020.104874}},
  volume       = {{163}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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