In the current investigation, the
solubility of fenoprofen as a
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug in supercritical CO2 (SC-CO2) is measured by employing a motorized PVT (pressure–volume–temperature)
equilibrium cell. The solubility measurements were carried out in
temperatures between 308 and 338 K and pressures between 12 and 40
MPa. The measured data reveals that the solubility of fenoprofen (mole
fraction) lies between 2.01 × 10–5 and 4.20
× 10–3, depending on the thermodynamic conditions.
Besides the experimental measurement of fenoprofen solubility, thermodynamic
modeling of solubility using five different density-based semi-empirical
correlations was carried out. The models were considered with only
three fitting parameters, namely, Mendez-Santiago and Teja (MST),
Bartle et al., Kumar and Johnston (K–J), Chrastil, and Garlapati
and Madras models. The results revealed that among the examined models,
the Bartle et al. model was the most accurate one with the lowest
average absolute relative deviation percent (AARD %) of 6.58% for
the studied drug, while the K–J model leads to poor prediction
with an AARD % of 9.60%.