Process Design Method for Manufacturing of Natural Compounds and Related Molecules

Autor: Eugene Ndocko Ndocko, Jochen Strube, Werner Bäcker
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Separation Science and Technology. 43:642-670
ISSN: 1520-5754
0149-6395
DOI: 10.1080/01496390701812525
Popis: Natural active compounds from plants have an increasing economic meaning in all areas of life sciences like e.g., food additives, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and crop protection. The main task in manufacturing larger amounts of these plant based products besides raw material supply, product stabilization, and quality assurance, is an efficient process development method and economic production technology. State of the art approach is used in standard extraction methods. Initially their quantities are determined in isolation of laboratory scale testing and then transferred into large‐scale production by keeping all operation parameters constant in order to keep product quality constant. Nowadays the problem is that in most cases besides any missing process optimization with regard to necessary economical objectives, equipment is used with no modern process control, automation or process integration design applied. This study is a first proposal for a systematical process development and design meth...
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