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15 - General Engineering
Brunel University London
Comparison of preparative reversed phase liquid chromatography and countercurrent chromatography for the kilogram scale purification of crude spinetoram insecticide
This is the first ever comparison between High Performance Counter-current Chromatography (HPCCC, the new liquid-liquid technology) and Preparative High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC, the liquid-solid state-of-the-art) for an industrial scale application. It showed the new technology used less than a third of the solvent and had more that 3 times the throughput of HPLC. It also demonstrated 44x loading with 17.5x the run time resulting in only 14 runs/kg compared to 460 with preparative HPLC. HPCCC clearly offers significant solvent cost savings and has since been effectively used by industry for a number of unpublished contract separations of new drugs.