By Guided by
Varad P. Bende Dr. S. D. Saptarshi
Department of Biotechnology
MGM’s Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, Aurangabad. MS.
Contents
• Supercritical Fluids
• Chromatography
• Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC)
• Instrumentation of SFC
• Advantages and Challenges
• Applications of SFC
• Case Studies
SUPERCRITICAL
FLUIDS
Supercritical
Fluids
• Critical Pressure (PC)
• Critical Temperature (TC)
Supercritical
Liquid Gas
Density
(g/cm3)
Diffusivity
(cm2/s)
Viscosity
(Pa . s)
Gas 10-5 10-1 10-4
Supercritical fluids 10-2 - 1 10-4 - 10-3 10-4 - 10-5
Liquid 1 10-5 10-2
SCF
Effect of Pressure and Temperature
CHROMATOGRAPHY
Adsorption Partition
Stationary
Phase
Mobile Phase
Chromatographic
Technique
CHROMATOGRAPHY
Gas
Liquid
Gas Liquid GLC
Solid
Gas Solid GSC
Liquid
Liquid
Paper
Chromtography
Solid
TLC
Liquid Solid LC
Bonded Phase
Size Exclusion
Ion exchange
AffinitySupercritical
fluid
Liquid Supercritical Fluid
ChromatographySolid
Classification of Chromatography
Column Chromatography
Stationary phase
Column
SUPERCRITICAL FLUID
CHROMATOGRAPHY
Supercritical
Fluids
Properties of
Gases
High Diffusivity
Low Viscosity
Properties of
Liuquid
Density
Solvating Power
•Dissolution
•Displacement of
. matrix
•Transport
•Penetrability
Mobile phase - CO2
•Chemically inert
•Cheap
•Non toxic
•Non flammable
•Low critical temperature and pressure
Sensitivity
Efficiency
Selectivity
INSTRUMENTATION
Advantages
•Cost of operation
•Non toxic
•Low back pressure
•High resolution
•Vast range of analytes
•Simple configuration
Challenges
High capital cost
Cannot analyse
extremely polar analytes
Detector incompatibility
Use of organic solvents
as modifiers
APPLICATIONS
•Enantioseparations
•Pharma industry
•Chiral compounds
•Polypeptides
•Lipophilic compounds
•Pigments
•Biologically active compounds
Manufacturers
 JASCO
 SHIMADZU
 Waters
 Agilent Technologies
CASE
STUDIES
Purification of Vitamin E
•Analyte of Interest - α-tocopherol from γ- and δ -tocopherol
•Mobile phase - CO 2 + 3.98% EtOH
•Stationary phase - Silica
Chongwen Jiang , et al. (2003)
•Temperature - 40 °C Pressure-18 MPa
Purification of Polypeptide
•Analyte of Interest - Isomeric polypeptides (547/541 and 541/544)
•Mobile phase - CO 2 + 0.2% TFA (in MetOH)
•Stationary phase - Pyridine capped silica
M A Patel , et al. (2011)
•Temperature - 40 °C Pressure-10 MPa
Purification of Cyclosporins
•Analyte of Interest - Cyclosporin analogs A,B,C,D,H
•Mobile phase - CO 2 + EtOH
•Stationary phase - Silica
Yuefi Shao , et al. (2016)
•Temperature - 80 °C Pressure-15 MPa
Purification of Carotenoids
•Analyte of Interest - Carotenoids and isomers
•Mobile phase - CO 2 + 1 %EtOH
•Stationary phase - Phenyl Polymethylsiloxane
H H Schmitz , et al. (1989)
•Temperature - 45 °C
Purification of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
•Analyte of Interest - EPA and DHA
•Mobile phase - CO 2
•Stationary phase - C18
M Alkioa , et al. (2000)
•Temperature - 65 °C Pressure-14.5 MPa
Supercritical Fluid Chromatography

Supercritical Fluid Chromatography