Process modelling of protein crystallisation: A case study of lysozyme
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Journal Article
Abstract
With the rise in interest of protein crystallisation as a purification step in downstream processing, there is significant interest in the process modelling of these crystallisation steps. Herein, we demonstrate and compare the applicability of “traditional” nucleation and growth models, commonly used to model small molecule crystallisation, for the successful population balance modelling of lysozyme crystallisation at the 100 mL and 1 L scales. Results show that both empirical power-law and first-principles models for nucleation and growth provide good fits to experimental data. Results from parameter estimation highlight a high degree of model sensitivity to initial guesses and stress the importance of providing particle size estimates in order to extract sensible data from the models. Estimates obtained for the 100 mL scale provided suitable initial guesses for the 1 L scale, despite significant differences in the final values obtained at each scale. For future work, further investigation into model validation upon scale-up is recommended. The work performed demonstrates the effectiveness of population balance modelling in the prediction of protein crystallisation behaviour, regardless of the underlying physical phenomena.
Date Issued
2023-04
Date Acceptance
2023-02-13
Citation
Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2023, 192, pp.268-279
ISSN
0263-8762
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
268
End Page
279
Journal / Book Title
Chemical Engineering Research and Design
Volume
192
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Institution of Chemical Engineers. This is an open access article
under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2023.02.016
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Published
Date Publish Online
2023-02-15