Pharmaceutical salt production

Chapters 8 and 9 are dedicated to the context and historical background of the Tableau. Chapter 8 explores the fields of chemical theory and practice in which the chemistry of pure chemical substances originated in the early modern period. We will particularly study operations with such substances in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century metallurgy and pharmaceutical salt production, as well as the interpretations of these operations by the historical actors, in which elements of the modern concept of chemical compound gradually developed. Around 1700, the bulk of these as yet independent and little-connected chemical operations using pure substances was integrated into a consistent system on the basis of the concept of replacement reaction. This integration, which established the chemistry of pure chemical substances as a special domain of chemical theory and practice, is affirmed by the affinity tables of... 

Our outline of chemical operations using pure chemical substances in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century metallurgy and pharmaceutical salt production shows that the chemistry of pure substances was a domain of chemical practice no less than of theory. It existed in workshops and artisanal laboratories and never became an exclusively academic subject. As is characteristic of chemistry in general, the workshop and the laboratory were by no means different worlds separated from each other. In eighteenth-century chemistry, materials, instruments, techniques, experiences, and conceptual knowledge flowed continuously back and forth from artisanal to academic sites. The men who inhabited these worlds ceaselessly crossed these boundaries as... 

In conclusion, a greater knowledge of the effect of the key controlling parameters of this powerful separation technique, as well as improvement in membrane life time of the currently available commercial electromembranes and reduction in their costs, would ensure further growth beyond desalination and salt production and foster ED applications in the food sector, as well as in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and municipal effluent treatment areas. This will of course need extensive R D studies and will highly likely result in hybrid processes combining ED to other separation techniques, such as NF, IE, and so on, so as to shorten present downstream and refining procedures. 

The Office collected information about the activities of chemical firms during the war. Thanks to its records, we know that production decreased rapidly during the autumn of 1914 at Etablissements Poulenc, except for the production of iodine and arsenobenzol, (drugs for syphilis). Several closed because raw materials or workers disappeared. The main pharmaceutical enterprises had similar difficulties and all of them requested skilled workers. " The Hoffmann La Roche plant was unable to purchase codeine and morphine from Switzerland once the Swiss government prohibited exports. Manufacturers also increased the output of products necessary in wartime, such as camphor and hydrogen peroxide. However, the Societe de Traitement du Quinquina reduced its quinine salt production 12,000 kg instead of its usual 30,000 kg, even though its total production capacity was 40,000 kg. Transport difficulties, the lack of skilled workers, and variations in prices were the main problems. 

Crystallization is mainly used for separation as an alternative to distillation, if the involved compounds are thermally unstable (e.g., acrylic acid), have a low or practically no vapor pressure (like salts), if the boiling points are similar, or if the system forms an azeotrope. Crystallization is used for the production and purification of various organic chemicals ranging from bulk chemicals (p-xylene and naphthalene) to fine chemicals like pharmaceuticals (e.g., proteins). Further examples of industrial crystallization processes are sugar refining, salt production for the food industry, and silicon crystal wafer production. 

The fermentation-derived food-grade product is sold in 50, 80, and 88% concentrations the other grades are available in 50 and 88% concentrations. The food-grade product meets the Vood Chemicals Codex III and the pharmaceutical grade meets the FCC and the United States Pharmacopoeia XK specifications (7). Other lactic acid derivatives such as salts and esters are also available in weU-estabhshed product specifications. Standard analytical methods such as titration and Hquid chromatography can be used to determine lactic acid, and other gravimetric and specific tests are used to detect impurities for the product specifications. A standard titration method neutralizes the acid with sodium hydroxide and then back-titrates the acid. An older standard quantitative method for determination of lactic acid was based on oxidation by potassium permanganate to acetaldehyde, which is absorbed in sodium bisulfite and titrated iodometricaHy. 

USP-grade anhydrous magnesium carbonate is used as a flavor impression intensification vehicle in the processed food industry (see Flavors and spices). Basic magnesium carbonates are used as free flowing agents in the manufacture of table salt, as a hulking agent in powder and tablet pharmaceutical formulations, as an antacid, and in a variety of personal care products (see Pharmaceuticals). 

Alkali Meta.IPhospha.tes, A significant proportion of the phosphoric acid consumed in the manufacture of industrial, food, and pharmaceutical phosphates in the United States is used for the production of sodium salts. Alkali metal orthophosphates generally exhibit congment solubility and are therefore usually manufactured by either crystallisation from solution or drying of the entire reaction mass. Alkaline-earth and other phosphate salts of polyvalent cations typically exhibit incongment solubility and are prepared either by precipitation from solution having a metal oxide/P20 ratio considerably lower than that of the product, or by drying a solution or slurry with the proper metal oxide/P20 ratio. 

Approximately half of the iodine consumed is used to make potassium iodide (see Iodine and iodine compounds). Production of KI is almost 1000 t/yr. Its main uses are in animal and human food, particularly in iodized salt, pharmaceuticals (qv), and photography (qv). 

Aminophenols and their derivatives are of commercial importance, both in their own right and as intermediates in the photographic, pharmaceutical, and chemical dye industries. They are amphoteric and can behave either as weak acids or weak bases, but the basic character usually predominates. 3-Aminophenol (2) is fairly stable in air unlike 2-aminophenol (1) and 4-aminophenol (3) which easily undergo oxidation to colored products. The former are generally converted to their acid salts, whereas 4-amiaophenol is usually formulated with low concentrations of antioxidants which act as inhibitors against undesired oxidation. 

Ammonium acetate has limited commercial uses. It serves as an analytical reagent, and in the production of foam mbber and vinyl plastics it is also used as a diaphoretic and diuretic in pharmaceutical appHcations. The salt has some importance as a mordant in textile dyeing. In a hot dye bath, gradual volatilization of ammonia from the ammonium acetate causes the dye solution to become progressively more acidic. This increase in acidity enhances the color and permanence of the dyeing process. 

Sodium nitrate is also used in formulations of heat-transfer salts for he at-treatment baths for alloys and metals, mbber vulcanization, and petrochemical industries. A mixture of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate is used to capture solar energy (qv) to transform it into electrical energy. The potential of sodium nitrate in the field of solar salts depends on the commercial development of this process. Other uses of sodium nitrate include water (qv) treatment, ice melting, adhesives (qv), cleaning compounds, pyrotechnics, curing bacons and meats (see Food additives), organics nitration, certain types of pharmaceutical production, refining of some alloys, recovery of lead, and production of uranium. 

Sorbic acid and its potassium salt, collectively called sorbates, are used primarily in a wide range of food and feed products (63) and to a lesser extent in certain cosmetics (64), pharmaceuticals, and tobacco products. There are limited appHcations of the calcium and sodium salts, but the acid and its potassium salt are used almost exclusively. 

Carmine [1390-65-4] is the trade name for the aluminum lake of the red anthraquinone dye carminic acid obtained from the cochineal bug. The dye is obtained from the powdery form of cochineal by extraction with hot water, the extracts treated with aluminum salts, and the dye precipitated from the solution by the addition of ethanol. This water-soluble bright red dye is used for coloring shrimp, pork sausages, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. It is the only animal-derived dye approved as a colorant for foods and other products. 

Dissociation extraction is the process of using chemical reac tion to force a solute to transfer from one liquid phase to another. One example is the use of a sodium hydroxide solution to extract phenolics, acids, or mercaptans from a hydrocarbon stream. The opposite transfer can be forced by adding an acid to a sodium phenate stream to spring the phenolic back to a free phenol that can be extrac ted into an organic solvent. Similarly, primary, secondary, and tertiary amines can be protonated with a strong acid to transfer the amine into a water solution, for example, as an amine hydrochloride salt. Conversely, a strong base can be added to convert the amine salt back to free base, which can be extracted into a solvent. This procedure is quite common in pharmaceutical production. 

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