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Published on: October 19, 2017
Single-step recovery of ephedrine hydrochloride from raw materials using expanded bed adsorption
Wei-Dong Chen1, Yan-Dong Wang, Li-Hang Zha
1State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.O. Box 353, P.R. China. wdchen@home.ipe.ac.cn
Abstract:
Expanded bed adsorption, using a cation resin 001 x 7 Styrene-DVB, was used to recover and purify ephedrine hydrochloride from a powdered herb. The axial liquid-phase dispersion coefficient was about 10(-5) m(2) s(-1) and the recovery yield and purification reached 86% and 22, respectively. Compared with using conventional extraction with dimethylbenzene, this method is safer and also more efficient.

