
Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) is a separation technique that utilizes immiscible liquid phases to purify compounds. The selection of solvents in Liquid–Liquid Chromatography offers flexibility and optimization possibilities for specific separation tasks. Understanding the hydrodynamics inside the apparatus is crucial for optimizing a CPC process. The phase retention ratio (Sf) determines the apparatus’s operating point and separation efficiency. However, stationary phase leakage, known as bleeding, complicates the immobilization of this phase. We used a partly transparent single-disc rotor to investigate the time and space dependency of bleeding inside a CPC apparatus, enabling real-time and localized determination of the phase retention ratio. By tracking the retention values over time, we observed the bleeding phenomenon and its progression from the inlet to the rotor outlet. Depending on the phase system used, the CPC was utilizable for a separation task for only 173–500 dimensionless residence times. Systems with a higher stability parameter (as described in the literature) showed a lower bleeding rate and increased stability over time. Accordingly, our results demonstrate the importance of maintaining an optimal ratio of mobile to stationary phase for efficient separation.
Chemistry, Centrifugal Partition Chromatography, Physics, QC1-999, transparent rotor design, stationary phase retention, bleeding, flow regime measurement, QD1-999
Chemistry, Centrifugal Partition Chromatography, Physics, QC1-999, transparent rotor design, stationary phase retention, bleeding, flow regime measurement, QD1-999
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