Paeonol shows a wide
range of pharmacological activities in the
pharmaceutical industry. In this study, the solubility of paeonol
in supercritical carbon dioxide (ScCO2) is determined by
measuring the cloud-point pressures of the binary system in a high-pressure
variable-volume view cell at various temperatures (i.e., 313.2, 318.2,
323.2, 328.2, 333.2 K) and pressure range of 8–15 MPa. The
results show that paeonol has good solubility in ScCO2,
and the solubility increases obviously with decreasing temperature
and increasing pressure in the experimental range. Then, four density-based
models, namely, Bartle, Méndez-Santiago and Teja, Ch and Madras,
and Gordillo, are employed to correlate and predict the solubility
data. The relevant average absolute relative deviation values of Bartle,
Méndez-Santiago and Teja, Ch and Madras, and Gordillo are 9.05,
9.37, 8.75, and 8.49%, respectively, indicating that the models can
well predict the solubility data.