Abstract
The simulated moving bed (SMB) process has been extensively used in industrial separations for binary and pseudobinary separations. The SMB has been reported to have higher productivity and requires less desorbent than batch chromatography; however, in pseudobinary separations these advantages are dependent on the difference of adsorption behaviors of the nontarget components. In this research, the performance of batch chromatography with a single recycle stream was compared to SMB processes for pseudobinary separations of ternary nucleosides, a model system with competitive Langmuir isotherms. To compare the performances of SMB and recycle batch chromatography, detailed dynamic simulations of each process were performed with optimized operating conditions. The desorbent to feed ratio, D/F, of recycle chromatography was at least 2 times smaller than that of a four-column SMB process for most retained solute separations. For one case of least retained solute separation (2′-deoxycytidine/2′-deoxythymidine/2...
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