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The influence of intensity Taylor vortex flow in Couette-Taylor crystallizer on the crystallization of polymorphic amino acid L-glutamic acid was investigated in cooling crystallization. Here, the L-glutamic acid was chosen as the model crystal product, where it has two kinds of polymorphism including the unstable phase α-form and stable phase β-form crystal. In cooling crystallization, the α-form crystal transformed to the β-form crystal corresponding to the phase transformation of α-form to β-form crystal. The present study found that the selective polymorphism of α-form and β-form crystal as well as the phase transformation significantly depended on the intensity of turbulent Taylor vortex flow in Couette-Taylor crystallizer. Here, the selective β-form nucleation and phase transformation were remarkably promoted as increasing the rotation speed of inner cylinder in Couette-Taylor crystallizer. By comparison with the conventional stirred tank (ST) crystallizer, the Couette-Taylor (CT) crystallizer was at least 2.0 times more effective as regards the selective β-form polymorphism and phase transformation time. The advantage of CT crystallizer over the conventional ST crystallizer was explained in terms of the high shear stress and mass transfer of turbulent Taylor vortex flow in CT crystallizer. Here, the shear stress of Taylor vortex flow in CT crystallizer was at least 23.0 times higher than that of fluid motion in conventional ST crystallizer, whereas the mass transfer of Taylor vortex flow in CT crystallizer was at least 1.2 times higher than that of fluid motion in conventional ST crystallizer. As such, the high turbulent shear stress of Taylor vortex flow was expected to promote the β-form nucleation via the effective molecules alignment, whereas the high mass transfer of Taylor vortex flow facilitated the dissolution rate of α-form and growth rate of β-form crystal, resulting in an acceleration of phase transformation rate.



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Issue: Vol 19 No 3 (2016)
Page No.: 11-23
Published: Sep 30, 2016
Section: Engineering and Technology - Research article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v19i3.580

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Khuu, Q., Dang, G., Trinh, H., & Nguyen, T. (2016). Pharmaceutical crystallization in Couette-Taylor crystallizer: A case study of polymorphism of amino acid L-glutamic acid. Science and Technology Development Journal, 19(3), 11-23. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v19i3.580

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