Solubility of famotidine in supercritical carbon dioxide: Experimental measurement and thermodynamic modeling

In the current study, the solubility of famotidine (FAM) in supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) was experi-mentally determined for the first time. The FAM solubility in scCO2, expressed as mole fraction, at different temperatures (308 -338 K) and pressures (12 -30 MPa) was found to be in the range of 1.40 x 10-6 to 1.11 x 10-4. Due to the low solubility of FAM in scCO2, the gas anti-solvent and supercritical anti-solvent processes can be a good option to generate the nano/micro size particles of this drug. The experimental solubility data were correlated by the density-based models of Bartle et al., Me & PRIME;ndez-Santiago and Teja (MST), Jouyban et al. and Hozhabr et al., by the non-cubic equation of state PC-SAFT, and by the two versions of the Este & PRIME;vez et al. model (ECM-PR and ECM-RK). According to the modeling results, the Este & PRIME;vez et al. model showed the highest accuracy with AARD values of 9.92 (ECM-PR) and 10.70 (ECM-RK). The empirical models also yielded satisfactory out-comes to the correlation of the solubility of FAM in scCO2.