Article Highlights• Solubility of cephalexin in supercritical carbon dioxide was measured in wide range of temperature and pressure • Solubility of cephalexin was in range of 1.13×10 -5 to 4.89×10 -3 based on mole fraction• Obtained solubilities were correlated using four different semi-empirical correlations
AbstractIn recent years, the use of supercritical carbon dioxide for different chemical processes, in particular particle micronization, has surprisingly increased.Knowing the substance solubility in supercritical solvent is a critical parameter during the particle size reduction processes. In this direction, solubility of cephalexin was measured in the supercritical carbon dioxide by changing the temperature and pressure between 308.15 and 338.15 K and from 16 to 40 MPa, respectively. The measured solubility of cephalexin in supercritical carbon dioxide was in the range of 1.13×10 -5 to 4.89×10 -3 based on the mole fraction at the different operational condition. Besides the experimentally measurement of cephalexin solubility, modeling of the results using four commonly used correlations, namely Mendez-Santiago and Teja (MST), Bartle, Kumar and Johnston and Chrastil models were utilized. The results revealed that the Chrastil model was the most accurate used semi-empirical correlation in the present study with the lowest average absolute relative deviation percent of (AARD) of 9.43%.