Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Vol.56, No.12, 4978-4983, 2011
Antisolvent Precipitation of Vitamin B6: A Thermodynamic Study
A supercritical antisolvent precipitation process was applied to recrystallize vitamin B(6) from ethanol solution in CO(2). By means of the Peng-Robinson equation of state (PR EoS), we performed preliminary studies to identify better operative conditions in terms of the organic solvent, pressure, temperature, and ability to carry a precipitate of the solute. This simulation was also considered to estimate the vitamin B(6) particle size starting from supersaturation conditions.