| Salicylic acid is an important product of chemical pharmaceutical industry. Its derivatives and it itself have a wide application in food industry and medicine. Being an antiseptic and antioxidant it is used for tinned foods and for external use. Salicylic acid is used in dyestuff, synthetic fragrants production, in cosmetics. Its main usage is in aspirin production, which is a cooling medicine and analgetic. Initial raw material for salicylic acid production is phenol. It is also the main contamination of salicylic acid synthesis product, moreover its main quantity is formed in the salicylic acid synthesis process as a result of side reaction. Thus obtained salicylic acid synthesis product contains about 99 % of o-Hydroxybenzoic acid calculated for dry substance. During aspirin synthesis the quality of finite product is defined first of all by salicylic acid purity. That’s why for chemical pharmaceutical preparations the technical salicylic acid after drying is cleaned by means of sublimation requiring great power expenditure. For this reason an attempt is made to clean the salicylic acid synthesis product by the method of supercritical fluid extraction using CO2 as an extragent. For technical economical optimization of salicylic acid cleaning process and for estimations of technological process optimal parameters in industrial scale, our aim was to obtain data on pharmaceutical salicylic acid and main contaminations solubilities in supercritical CO2 in a wide range of pressures and different temperatures. |