Jan Schütz, Julia Witte, Maurus Marty and Roman Goy*,
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Abstract
This work details the removal of an azine-dimer (AD) impurity from 7-dehydrocholesterol (DHC), a precursor of vitamin D3, using a newly developed, sustainable hybrid membrane process, from the idea to implementation. Developed by an international team collaborating under tight time frame and COVID restrictions, this innovative method exemplifies a versatile, energy-saving, and cost-effective separation technology by organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN). Traditional purification methods proved to be unsuccessful, costly, or unsustainable, but this process achieved DHC purification with a minimal yield loss of 0.1%. This separation challenge goes beyond typical OSN applications (solute concentration or solvent exchange) by separating two similar solutes in a solvent mixture. In a three-stage OSN process, the impurity level was reduced from approximately 2600 ppm to below 50 ppm in the final permeate. After developing and scaling up the process, the OSN, precipitation, and filtration units were engineered and constructed. These units were installed in the dsm-firmenich vitamin D3 plant, and the purification process was successfully commissioned.
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The journal Organic Process Research & Development serves as a communication tool between industrial chemists and chemists working in universities and research institutes. As such, it reports original work from the broad field of industrial process chemistry but also presents academic results that are relevant, or potentially relevant, to industrial applications. Process chemistry is the science that enables the safe, environmentally benign and ultimately economical manufacturing of organic compounds that are required in larger amounts to help address the needs of society. Consequently, the Journal encompasses every aspect of organic chemistry, including all aspects of catalysis, synthetic methodology development and synthetic strategy exploration, but also includes aspects from analytical and solid-state chemistry and chemical engineering, such as work-up tools，process safety, or flow-chemistry. The goal of development and optimization of chemical reactions and processes is their transfer to a larger scale; original work describing such studies and the actual implementation on scale is highly relevant to the journal. However, studies on new developments from either industry, research institutes or academia that have not yet been demonstrated on scale, but where an industrial utility can be expected and where the study has addressed important prerequisites for a scale-up and has given confidence into the reliability and practicality of the chemistry, also serve the mission of OPR&D as a communication tool between the different contributors to the field.
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