Layla Mir Bruce

Ms. Layla Mir Bruce

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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

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30 September 2017 in Crystals
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TNThai Thu Hien Nguyen
Thai Thu Hien Nguyen
AKAzeem Khan
Azeem Khan
LBLayla Mir Bruce
Layla Mir Bruce
CFClarissa Forbes
Clarissa Forbes
RORicahrd O'Leary
Ricahrd O'Leary
CPChris Price
Chris Price
Sono-crystallisation has been used to enhance crystalline product quality particularly in terms of purity, particle size and size distribution. In this work, the effect of impurities and ultrasound on crystallisation processes (nucleation temperature, yield) and crystal properties (crystal size distribution determined by Focused Beam Reflectance Measurement (FBRM), crystal habit, filtration rate and impurity content in the crystal product by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS)) were investigated in bulk suspension crystallisation experiments with and without the use of ultrasound. The results demonstrate that ultrasonic intervention has a significant effect on both crystallisation and product crystal properties. It increases the nucleation rate resulting in smaller particles and a narrower Particle Size Distribution (PSD), the yield has been shown to be increase as has the product purity. The effect of ultrasound is to reduce the level acetanilide impurity incorporated during growth from a 2 mol% solution of the selected impurity from 0.85 mol% to 0.35 mol% and likewise ultrasound reduces the uptake of metacetamol from 1.88 mol% to 1.52 mol%.