Applications  [ Return towards  Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics & fine Chemicals ]

For all the following processes, Air Liquide has developed a solution based on the application of the gases supplied to its customers

Air Liquide, partner of the Pharmaceuticals

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Supercritical CO2 Extraction

Using supercritical CO2 for extraction has been developed since the 80's to be mature nowadays. This technique enables to obtain trully pure organic extracts without any trace of solvent. This is particularly adapted to the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries for the extraction of active substrates and fragrances.

Transfer of products

You should …
• Quickly decant a liquid or a sensitive powder at lower cost? Nitrogen transfers your products in all efficiency and total safety.

Thermoregulation

You need to:

  • Cool your chemical reactors to low or very low temperatures?
  • Monitor chemical reaction rate?
  • Reduce by-product formation and improve stereo-specificity?

Cooling

You wish to achieve a fast cooling effect within your process?

Controlled Atmosphere Areas

You want to…

• Improve the purge of head-space of packaging?
• Improve the lifetime and the therapeutic efficiency of sensitive products?
• Maintain an inert atmosphere until the closing of the packing?

Transportation under controlled temperature

For the transportation of pharmaceutical products under controlled temperature, Air Liquide has developed different processes (CARBOFRESH, PROMOCARBO, CO2 CYCLONE) using Dry Ice and CO2 snow.

Lyophilizing

You need to preserve fragile substances by lyophilization, stabilize these substances and simplify their storage?

Cryogrinding

You wish to …
• Enlarge the range of substances to grind?
• Get the requested granulometry?
• Keep the physical and chemical characteristics of products?

Protection with inert gas

You want to avoid constitution of explosive atmospheres during storage, transfer, treatment and conditioning of your flammable products, secure your facilities (silos, spin-dryers, reactor shell), or protect your fragile products against oxidization and humidity ?

Statement

Bio-sensitive industries have a very particular activity. It concerns life and human or animal health.These industries use large amount of gases, mainly for the blanketing of their products or their conservation at very low temperature.
DMC cryogenic vessel

cryo-conservation

You seek to optimise the management of your biological products stored in liquid nitrogen, and rationalize the cryogenic flows :

Fermentation

You need to …
• Maintain, in aerobic fermentation, the dissolved oxygen value in narrow limits?
• Eliminate CO2 produced by most micro-organisms?
• Optimize the oxygen transfer all along the fermentation process?
VOC recovery

Cryogenic condensation of VOCs

With about a hundred systems in operation, and more than fifteen years of experience, AIR LIQUIDE helps the chemical industry to comply with air pollution control regulations by providing design, engineering, equipment and the installation of cryocondensation systems with your local legislation.