Abstract
Crystallization of active pharmaceutical ingredients is essential in pharmaceutical production. Pervaporation, a thermally-driven membrane process, has not been explored in API crystallization. Here we demonstrated PV-assisted crystallization (PVaC) for simultaneous recovery of API ortho-aminobenzoic acid (o-ABA) and pure solvent. The PERVAP 4060 made of organophilic polymer was found suitable given the reasonable flux of ethanol of 3.69 kg/m2/h at 45 °C with saturated solution and 99.9% o-ABA rejection. A parametric study showed that the membrane permeance increased with feed flow rate and temperature, but decreased with supersaturation. In the sequential PVaC, the stable form I of o-ABA was obtained with 25 °C PV; while with 45 °C PV, only metastable form II crystallized. In the simultaneous PVaC, at 0 time lag pure form II was produced; by increasing time lag, form I increased significantly. The results indicated potential routes to control polymorph formation via PVaC, providing a promising alternative for API production.
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