Abstract
Phase behavior of paclitaxel in solvent mixtures of dichloromethane and supercritical carbon dioxide was investigated using a supercritical phase monitor. Cloud point pressures were determined as a function of temperature, pressure and paclitaxel content from 313.1 to 343.1 K and pressures up to 33.52 MPa. The ternary mixtures exhibit a typical lower critical solution temperature behavior. When paclitaxel content increases, the single-phase region shrinks in size. Three cubic equations of state (Redlich-Kworng, Soave-Redlich-Kwong and Peng-Robinson equation of state) coupled with the van der Waals one-fluid mixing rules were selected to correlate the experimental data. The results indicate that SRK EOS coupled with two binary interaction parameters k ij and l ij can predict paclitaxel solubility for the best fit of experimental data.
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