Measurement of solubilities of palmitic acid in supercritical carbon dioxide and entrainer effect of water by FTIR spectroscopy

Autor: Yasuhiko Arai, Yoshio Iwai, Machiko Uno, Hirotaka Nagano
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: The Journal of Supercritical Fluids. 28:193-200
ISSN: 0896-8446
DOI: 10.1016/s0896-8446(03)00013-5
Popis: The solubilities of palmitic acid in supercritical CO 2 and supercritical CO 2 +water were measured by using a static recirculation method combined with on-line Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Experiments were carried out at 15.0 MPa and 313.2 K. The peak of CH 2 symmetric stretching band for palmitic acid was used to measure the solubilities of palmitic acid. The solubility of palmitic acid in supercritical CO 2 saturated with water was found to be 16% larger than that in supercritical CO 2 . The interaction between palmitic acid and water was investigated, and the amount of interaction species was determined by using FTIR spectroscopy. The noticeable bands were the CO stretching bands for palmitic acid. It was also found that the solubility of palmitic acid in supercritical CO 2 increased with increasing molarity of water, because of the interaction between water and carboxyl group in palmitic acid.
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