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• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61K—PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES
  • A61K9/00—Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form
  • A61K9/48—Preparations in capsules, e.g. of gelatin, of chocolate
  • A61K9/50—Microcapsules having a gas, liquid or semi-solid filling; Solid microparticles or pellets surrounded by a distinct coating layer, e.g. coated microspheres, coated drug crystals
  • A61K9/5089—Processes
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
  • B01J—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS
  • B01J13/00—Colloid chemistry, e.g. the production of colloidal materials or their solutions, not otherwise provided for; Making microcapsules or microballoons
  • B01J13/02—Making microcapsules or microballoons
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
  • A23K—FODDER
  • A23K40/00—Shaping or working-up of animal feeding-stuffs
  • A23K40/30—Shaping or working-up of animal feeding-stuffs by encapsulating; by coating
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
  • B01J—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS
  • B01J13/00—Colloid chemistry, e.g. the production of colloidal materials or their solutions, not otherwise provided for; Making microcapsules or microballoons
  • B01J13/02—Making microcapsules or microballoons
  • B01J13/06—Making microcapsules or microballoons by phase separation
  • B01J13/14—Polymerisation; cross-linking
  • B01J13/16—Interfacial polymerisation
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S426/00—Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
  • Y10S426/805—Pet food for dog, cat, bird, or fish
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
  • Y10T428/29—Coated or structually defined flake, particle, cell, strand, strand portion, rod, filament, macroscopic fiber or mass thereof
  • Y10T428/2982—Particulate matter [e.g., sphere, flake, etc.]
  • Y10T428/2984—Microcapsule with fluid core [includes liposome]
  • Y10T428/2985—Solid-walled microcapsule from synthetic polymer

Definitions

• the present invention relates to microencapsulation processes and more especially to processes for encapsulati ng fine droplets of a hydrophilic liquid in a hydrophobic continuous phase .
• microcapsules Once the microcapsules have been produced it is frequently desirable to change the continuous phase from a hydrophobic liquid to a hydrophilic liquid, especially water . This is normally effected by decantinor centrifuging off the maj ority of the hydrophobic liquid , and washing and redispersing the microcapsules several times in a hydrophilic liquid containing large amounts of surfacta nt.
• U.K. Application No.2040863 discloses a process for the production of microcapsules containing an aqueous solution
• U.K. Application No.2040863 discloses a process for the production of microcapsules containing an aqueous solution of a hydrophilic protein containing a plurality of free amine groups, which comprises forming an emulsion of the aqueous protein solution as disperse phase in a substantially non-polar solvent as the continuous phase and adding to the emulsion a solution of a compound containing a plurality of groups capable of reacting with amine groups to form a polymer, especially to form a polyamide.
• This invention provides a process for microencapsulation of an aqueous amine solution by emulsifying the aqueous solution in an organic liquid and forming a polymer membrane around the droplets by interfacial polymerisation by reaction with a poly basic acid chloride or. anhydride, wherein, when the reaction has proceeded to the desired extent the reaction is terminated by introducing water into the reaction medium to react with and destroy residual acid chloride or anhydride.
• Water can be introduced into the reaction medium by any method that ensures intimate contact of the water with the acid chloride or anhydride dissolved in the hydrophobic phase of the emulsion or with acid chloride or anhydride groups remaining in the polymer membrane of the capsules.
• the water is preferably introduced into the reaction medium by adding to the reaction medium a solution of water in an organic liquid, which solution is substantially miscible with the hydrophebic phase of the emulsion.
• the organic licuid serves as a carrier vehicle to introduce water into the hydrophobic phase of the emulsion where it substantially immediately reacts with the acid chloride or anhydride thereby rendering it incapableof taking part in further reaction. Accordingly, when the capsules are brought into close proximity, as for example when the hydrophobic liquid is decanted off there are no residual acid chloride or anhydride groups available to take part in further reaction with the amine groups.
• the organic liquid is preferably a lower aliphatic alcohol containing up to 5 carbon atoms but it may be any liquid that is capable of dissolving water in sufficient quantity to neutralise all the acid chloride or anhydride groups to produce a solution which is miscible with the hydrophobic phase of the emulsion.
• the solvent should dissolve water in an amount of at least 1% and desirably in an amount of at least 3%.
• Alcohols preferred for use in the process are methanol, ethanol, n-propanol, isopropanol, n-butanol, isobutanol and n-amyl alcohol.
• liquids that can be used in the process are, for example, the various solvent mixtures that are conventionally used in such operations as fluorometric analysis or assay to introduce water into organic solvents.
• solvent mixtures there may be mentioned those materials sold under the trade names "pico-fluor 30" and "Instagel”.
• Pico-fluor 30 is believed to be based on pscudocumene and Instagel is based on a mixture of dioxane and naphthalene.
• water in admixture with an organic liquid it is possible to introduce water in admixture with a gas provided that the gas can be introduced into the liquid in sufficiently finely divided form.
• Moist air can for example be introduced into the liquid through an air stone or through a stirrer having means for the introduction of air.
• the capsules can be dried simply by passing a current of air through the capsules on the screen, although other methods such as freeze drying may be used if desired.
• any occluded hydrophobic liquid can be removed from the capsules. Drying may also be carried out to remove the water from within the capsules thereby reducing the density of the capsules.
• capsules dried in this way are placed in water they rapidly rehydrate to be ready for use. Following drying of the capsules there may be some caking caused fay physical bonding between capsules and this can be broken by agitating the capsules but there is no aggregation of the capsules caused by chemical bonding unless a certain amount of aggregation is desired for some uses of the capsules.
• the process of the invention is applicable to any microencapsulation process involving an interfacial polymerisation reaction between an amine and an acid chloride or anhydride the process is particularly applicable to the process described in U.K. patent specification 2040863 where the microcapsules are primarily intended for fish, food or for carrying pharmaceuticals or the like since it is then possible to ensure that single capsules of the desired size can be obtained in a very simple manner and without extensive precautions against aggregation.
• Microcapsules produced by terminating the process of U.K. patent specification No. 2040863 using the process of this invention have all the advantages of the capsules of the earlier application but have various additional advantages.
• the following examples illustrate the invention.
• Examples 1 to 6 a diet mix comprising homogenised cod roe, water soluble fish meal, spray dried egg white and glycerol in a ratio of 10:1:1:1 was used.
• EXAMPLE 1 13.5 grams of egg lecithin were dissolved in
• Example 1 was repeated except that the cholesterol/egg lecithin solution contained 1 gram cholesterol and 2.66 grams of lecithin in 190 mls cyclohexane and was added in an amount of 190 mls. Similarly good capsules were obtained.
• Example 1 was repeated except that emulsification was stopped after 2 minutes and restarted at faster speed with a smaller bladed rotor.
• Example 1 was repeated except that the emulsification period was reduced to 5 minutes using a faster speed and a smaller rotor. Similarly good capsules of a slightly smallersize than those obtained in Example 1 were obtained.
• EXAMPLE 5 Example 1 was repeated except that the amount of cyclohexane used in preparing the emulsion was reduced to 1500 mls, the amount of cyclohexane introduced with the acid was reduced to 500 mls and the reaction time was increased to 9 minutes. Similarly good capsules were obtained.
• EXAMPLE 6 1 gram of cholesterol and 4 grams of egg lecithin were dissolved, in 2,010 mls of cyclohexane in a 5 litre beaker with stirbing using a high speed mixer. 700 grams of diet were added and mixing was continued for 5 minutes to homogenise the mix and form an emulsion.
• Example 1 was repeated using 1000 grams of a diet mix consisting of capelin oil, spray dried egg white and spray dried haemoglobin in water in a ratio of 4:1:1:14. The diet was made up by forming the oil, egg white and haemoglobin into a paste which was then dispersed in the water.
• Example 7 was repeated except that in the diet the spray dried haemoglobin was replaced by spray dried whole blood. Similarly good capsules were obtained.
• Example 1 was repeated using 700 grams of a 20% aqueous solution of bovine haemoglobin. Good capsules were obtained.
• Example 10 was repeated using 20 mls of isopropanol containing 0.2 mls of water in place of n-butanol. Similar results were achieved.
• Example 10 was repeated using 20 mls of n-propanol containing 0.6 mls of water in place of n-butanol. Similarly good, results were obtained.
• Example 10 was repeated using 20 mls of n-amyl alcohol containing 0.2 mls of water in place of n-butanol. Similarly good results were obtained.
• EXAMPLE 14
• Example 10 was repeated using 20 mls of ethanol containing 0.6 mls of water in place of n-butanol. Similarly good results were obtained.
• EXAMPLE 15
• Example 10 was repeated except that 0.6 mls of water in 20 mls of Pico-fluor 30 was used in place of the water in butanol solution.
• Example 10 was repeated except that instead of pure egg albumin there was used a mixture of egg albumin and bovine haemoglobin in a ratio of 1:1. In addition instead of the solution of water in butanol there was used a solution of 0.6 mls of water in 20 mls of Instagel. Good quality capsules were obtained.

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