Using of Taguchi Method for Experimental Design of Crystallization Processes of an Oxidant: Tetraethylammonium Chlorochromate (VI)

Abstract  Crystallization of tetraethylammonium chlorochromate (C₂H₅)₄NCrO₃Cl], TEACC, with desirable particle size as a performance characteristic was used to illustrate the design procedure. Taguchi design of experiments (DOE) method has been used for to plan a minimum number of experiments and optimization of crystallization processes. Four factors, which influence the crystal size, crystal growth and nucleation, were chosen. These factors are concentration, temperature, type of solvent and method of crystallization. After optimization the results show that concentration is most effective factor that has largest percent of contribution 53.26% and type of solvent is least effective factor that has smallest percent of contribution 4.33%. The optimum conditions are vapor diffusion as method, 0.043 g/15 mL for concentration, 0 °C for temperature and acetonitrile as solvent. These conditions must be produced suitable crystals for single crystal X-ray diffraction experiment. These results confirmed by experimental data and the crystals of the optimum conditions found to have suitable properties for single crystal X-ray diffraction. These crystals had sent for single crystal X-ray diffraction and diffraction data gathered successfully. A red block crystal was mounted on a glass fiber. The X-ray data determined monoclinic system, space group C2(#5), with a = 12.023(3), b = 7.998(2), c = 14.527(4) ?, β = 114.187(4)°, V = 1274.4(6) ?³ and Z = 4. Index Abstract  The Taguchi design of experiments (DOE) method has been used for to plan a minimum number of experiments and optimization of crystallization processes. Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.