WO2013147759A1 - Optimization of nucleation and crystallization for lyophilization using gap freezing - Google Patents
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- This disclosure relates to methods and apparatus used for lyophilizing liquid solutions of solutes.
- the disclosure provides a method for optimization of the, nucleation and crystallization of the liquid solution during freezing to produce lyophilized cakes of the solutes with large, consistent pore sizes.
- the disclosure also provides a method for rapid lyophilization of the frozen liquid solution.
- the disclosure additionally provides apparatus for use with the method and lyophilization chambers.
- lyophilization involves the freeze-drying of solutes. Typically, a solution is loaded into a lyophilization chamber, the solution is frozen, and the frozen solvent is removed by sublimation under reduced pressure.
- One embodiment of the invention is an article adapted for use in a lyophilization chamber comprising a heat sink with a heat sink surface in thermal communication with a refrigerant; a tray surface; and a thermal insulator disposed between the heat sink surface and the tray surface.
- the article can include a refrigerant conduit in thermal communication with the heat sink surface and a heat sink medium disposed between the refrigerant conduit and the heat sink surface.
- the thermal insulator can form a fixed distance, for example greater than about 0.5 mm, separating the heat sink surface and tray surface during one or more steps in a lyophilization process.
- the distance can be maintained by the insulator comprising a spacer disposed between the heat sink surface and the tray surface, the spacer having a thickness of greater than, for example, about 0.5 mm.
- the thermal insulator can support a tray carrying the tray surface.
- the thermal insulator can form the tray surface.
- An additional embodiment of the invention is the lyophilization device that includes the article.
- the lyophilization device can include a plurality of heat sinks that individually have a heat sink surface in thermal communication with a refrigerant, at least one of said heat sinks being disposed above another to thereby form upper and lower heat sinks; a tray surface disposed between the upper heat sink and a lower heat sink surface; and a thermal insulator is disposed between the tray surface and the lower heat sink.
- the lyophilization device can have the distance from the heat sink surface to the tray surface fixed by the thermal insulator.
- the thermal insulator can comprise the spacer, or a brace affixed to an internal wall (fixed or adjustable) of the lyophilization device or other embodiments can maintain a distance between the lower heat sink surface and the tray surface during one or more steps in the lyophilization process.
- Still another embodiment of the invention is a vial comprising a sealable sample container having top and a bottom and a thermal insulator comprises a thermally insulating support affixed to the bottom of the sealable sample container, the thermally insulating support having a thermal conductivity less than about 0.2 W/mK at 25 8 C.
- the sample container and the insulating support are made of different materials.
- Yet another embodiment is a method of lyophilizing a liquid solution using the 'article, lyophilization device and/or vial described herein.
- the method includes loading a container comprising a liquid solution into a lyophilization chamber comprising a heat sink; the liquid solution comprising a solute and a solvent and characterized by a top surface and a bottom surface; providing a thermal insulator between the container and the heat sink; lowering the temperature of the heat sink and thereby the ambient temperature in the lyophilization chamber comprising the container to a temperature sufficient to freeze the liquid solution from the top and the bottom surfaces at approximately the same temperature and form a frozen solution.
- the method then includes lyophilizing the frozen solution by reducing the ambient pressure.
- the method may comprise removing the thermal insulator before or during the lyophilizing step.
- the method can include the lyophilization chamber having a plurality of heat sinks and loading the container comprising the liquid solution into the lyophilization chamber between two parallel heat sinks.
- a further embodiment of the invention includes a method of freezing a liquid solution for subsequent lyophilization, the liquid comprising top and bottom surfaces and disposed in a container, and the container disposed in a lyophilization chamber comprising a heat sink, the improvement comprising forming the a thermal insulator by separating the container from direct contact with the heat sink, to thereby freeze the solution from the top and bottom surfaces at approximately the same temperature.
- Still another embodiment of the invention is a lyophilized cake comprising a substantially dry lyophilized material; and a plurality of pores in the lyophilized material having substantially the same pore size; wherein the lyophilized cake was made by the method disclosed herein.
- the lyophilized cake can have a pore size that is substantially larger than the pore size of a reference lyophilized cake comprising the same material as the lyophilized cake but made by a reference method comprising loading a container comprising a liquid solution into a lyophilization chamber comprising a heat sink; the liquid solution comprising the material and a solvent; excluding a thermal insulator between the container and the heat sink; lowering the temperature of the heat sink and thereby the ambient temperature in the lyophilization chamber to freeze the liquid solution; freezing the liquid solution; and lyophilizing the frozen solution to form the reference lyophilized cake.
- Yet another aspect of the invention is a method including providing a lyophilization chamber including a heat sink surface in thermal communication with a refrigerant, loading a container including a liquid solution into the lyophilization chamber, the liquid solution including a solute and a solvent and characterized by a top surface and a bottom surface, and lowering the temperature of the heat sink and thereby the ambient temperature in the lyophilization chamber holding the container to a temperature sufficient to freeze the liquid solution, wherein the container is loaded into the lyophilization chamber at a distance spaced vertically from the heat sink thereby forming an intervening thermal insulator, the distance selected to provide freezing the liquid solution from the top and the bottom surfaces at approximately the same temperature and thereby form a frozen solution.
- thermal insulator between container and heat sink during freezing
- the thermal insulator may be removed thereby placing the container in thermally-conductive contact (i.e., direct or indirect) with the heat sink during or following freezing of the solution, to thereby facilitate more rapid freeze drying in the sublimation process.
- Figure 1 is a drawing of the inside of a lyophilization device showing a
- Figure 2 is a composite drawing of an article showing an arrangement of a heat sink surface and a tray surface
- Figure 3 is another composite drawing of an article showing an arrangement of a plurality of heat sinks and the location and separation of the heat sink surface and the tray surface;
- Figure 4 is illustrations of sample containers, here vials, (4a) positioned on a tray, (4b) positioned directly on a thermal insulator, or (4c) combined with a thermally insulating support;
- Figure 5 is a drawing of a sample vial including a liquid solution showing the placement of thermocouples useful for the measurement of the temperatures of the top and the bottom of the solution;
- Figure 6 is a plot of the temperatures of the top and the bottom of a 10 wt.% aqueous sucrose solution frozen using a 3mm gap between a heat sink surface and a tray (the tray having a thickness of about 1.2 mm) showing a nucleation event, the differences in temperatures between the top and the bottom of the solution, and the reduction in temperature of the top of the solution after the freezing point plateau;
- Figure 7 is plots of the water-ice conversion indices for a 5 wt. % aqueous sucrose solution as a function of distance (air gap) from a heat sink surface to a tray (the tray having a thickness of about 1.2 mm);
- Figure 8 is a plot of the internal temperatures of vials during a primary drying process illustrating the effect of gap-freezing on the product temperature during freeze- drying;
- Figure 9 is a plot of effective pore radii for samples frozen on a 6 mm gapped tray and samples frozen directly on the heat sink surface;
- Figures 10 and 11 are temperature probe diagrams for top shelf and bottom shelf vials according to Example 2;
- Figures 12 and 13 are comparisons of approximate drying time for vials on the top shelf and bottom shelf, according to Example 2;
- Figure 14 is a comparison of product temperatures of top shelf center vials and bottom shelf center vials during drying, according to Example 2;
- Figure 15 is a comparison of product temperatures of top shelf center vials and edge vials TP04 and TP07 during drying, according to Example 2.
- Figure 16 is a comparison of product temperatures of bottom shelf center vials and edge vials during drying, according to Example 2.
- One well known issue associated with the lyophilization of materials is the formation of one or more layers of the solute (the dissolved materials) on the top of the frozen solution. These layers form during the freezing of the solution because, typically, the solutions are positioned within the lyophilization chamber on a heat sink which rapidly decreases in temperature and causes the solution to freeze from the bottom up. This bottom up freezing pushes the solute in the liquid phase closer to the top of the solution and increases the solute concentration in the still liquid solution. The high concentration of solute can then form a solid mass that can inhibit the flow of gasses therethrough. In a worse case, the solute forms an amorphous solid that is nearly impermeable and prevents sublimation of the frozen solvent. These layers of concentrated solute can inhibit the sublimation of the frozen solvent and may require use of higher drying temperatures and/or longer drying times.
- Disclosed herein is an apparatus for and method of freezing a material, e.g., for subsequent lyophilization, that can prevent the formation of these layers and thereby provide efficient sublimation of the frozen solvent.
- the lyophilization or freeze drying of solutes is the sublimation of frozen liquids, leaving a non-subliming material as a resultant product.
- the non-subliming material is generally referred to as a solute.
- a common lyophilization procedure involves loading a lyophilization chamber with a container that contains a liquid solution of at least one solute. The liquid solution is then frozen. After freezing, the pressure in the chamber is reduced sufficiently to sublime the frozen solvent, such as water, from the frozen solution.
- the lyophilization device or chamber is adapted for the freeze drying of samples in containers by including at least one tray for supporting the container and means for reducing the pressure in the chamber (e.g., a vacuum pump).
- a vacuum pump e.g., a vacuum pump.
- Many lyophilization devices and chambers are commercially available.
- the lyophilization chamber includes a heat sink 101 that facilitates the lowering of the temperature within the chamber.
- the heat sink 101 includes a heat sink surface 102 that is exposed to the internal volume of the lyophilization chamber and is in thermal communication with a refrigerant 103.
- the refrigerant 103 can be carried in the heat sink 101 within a refrigerant conduit 104.
- the refrigerant conduit 104 can carry the heat sink surface 102 or can be in fluid communication with the heat sink surface 102 for example through a heat sink medium 105.
- the heat sink medium 105 is a thermal conductor, not insulator, and preferably has a thermal conductivity of greater than about 0.25, 0.5, and/or 1 W/mK at 25 °C.
- the sample containers 106 do not sit on or in direct, substantial thermal conductivity with the heat sink 101 during freezing.
- the sample containers 106 sit on or are carried by a tray surface 107 that is thermally insulated from the heat sink 101.
- the sample containers 106 are thermally insulated by being suspended above the heat sink 101.
- the tray surface 107 is thermally insulated from the heat sink 101 by a thermal insulator 108.
- the thermal insulator 108 has a thermal conductivity of less than about 0.2, less than 0.1 , and/or less than 0.05 W/mK at 25 °C.
- the thermal insulator 108 can be a gas, a partial or complete vacuum, a paper, a foam (e.g., a foam having flexibility at cryogenic temperatures), a polymeric material, or a combination or other mixture of thereof.
- the polymeric material can be free of or substantially free of open cells or can be a polymeric foam (e.g., a cured foam).
- the thermal insulator 108 refers to the material, object and/or space that provides thermal insulation from the heat sink 101. Air-is still considered a thermal insulator in a method or apparatus wherein the pressure of the air is decreased due to evacuation of the lyophilization chamber.
- the level of thermal insulation provided by the thermal insulator 108 can be dependent on the thickness of the thermal insulator 108. This thickness can be measured by the distance 109 from the heat sink surface 102 to the tray surface 107, for example. This distance 109, limited by the internal size of the lyophilization chamber, can be in a range of about 0.5 to about 50 mm, for example, or smaller if the thermal isolation is very high. This distance 109 can be optimized for specific lyophilization chamber volumes and preferably is greater than about 0.5, 0.75, 1 , 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5, 9, 9.5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 mm.
- the distance 109 can be larger than about 10 mm, the volume within the lyophilization device is typically better used by optimizing the distances below about 20 mm.
- the distance between the heat sink surface 102 and the tray surface 107 is only limited by the distance between the heat sink surface 102 and the upper heat sink 101 minus the height of a vial 106.
- the preferred distance 109 can be dependent on the specific model and condition of lyophilization chamber, heat sink, refrigerant, and the like, and is readily optimized by the person of ordinary skill in view of the present disclosure to avoid uneven freezing from top and bottom surfaces of the solution in the container.
- the tray surface 107 is carried by a tray 110, preferably a rigid tray.
- the tray surface 107 can be a thermal insulator (e.g., foamed polyurethane) or a thermal conductor (e.g., stainless steel).
- the thermal insulator 108 may comprise a gas, a partial vacuum, or a full vacuum.
- the tray 110 is preferably maintained at a fixed distance between heat sink surface 102 and the tray surface 107 during freezing.
- the tray 110 can be spaced from the heat sink surface 102 by the thermal insulator 108 formed in an embodiment to include a spacer 111 positioned between the tray 110 and the heat sink surface 102 or can be spaced from the heat sink surface 102 to form the thermal insulator 108 by operationally engaging the tray 1 10 to a bracket 112 affixed to an internal surface 113 (e.g., wall) of the lyophilization chamber.
- the tray 1 10 is maintained at a distance from the heat sink surface 102 to form the thermal insulator 108 by a plurality of struts (not shown) that operationally engage the tray 1 10 and heat sink surface 102.
- a spacer 111 supports the tray 10
- the distance from the heat sink surface 102 to the tray surface 107 is the thickness of the spacer 111 plus the thickness of the tray 110.
- the spacer 111 can have a thickness in a range of about 0.5 mm to about 10 mm, about 1 mm to about 9 mm, about 2 mm to about 8 mm, and/or about 3 mm to about 7 mm, for example.
- the tray 110 can be carried by one or more spacers 111 placed between the heat sink surface 102 and the tray 110.
- the tray 110 can be carried by the thermal insulator 108 comprising a rigid thermal insulator.
- the tray 110 can be a thermal conductor (e.g., stainless steel) and supported by (e.g., resting on) a thermal insulator (e.g., foamed polyurethane).
- the rigid thermal insulator can be combined with spacers to carry the tray.
- the rigid thermal insulator (with or without the spacer) can have a thickness in a range of about 0.5 mm to about 10 mm, about 1 mm to about 9 mm, about 2 mm to about 8 mm, and/or about 3 mm to about 7 mm, for example.
- the lyophilization device can include a plurality of heat sinks 101 that individually have a heat sink surface 102 in thermal communication with a refrigerant 103.
- the heat sinks 101 can be disposed vertically in the lyophilization chamber with respect to each other, forming upper and lower heat sinks 101 (see e.g., Figure 1).
- the lower heat sink surface 102 is disposed between the upper and lower heat sinks and the tray surface 107 is disposed between the upper heat sink 101 and the lower heat sink surface 102.
- the thermal insulator 108 is disposed between the tray surface 107 and the lower heat sink 101.
- each individual sample container 106 can sit on or be carried by a thermal insulator 108 (see e.g., Figure 4b).
- the thermal insulator 108 can comprise a thermally insulating support 114 affixed to the bottom of the vial 115 (see e.g., Figure 4c).
- the thermally insulating support 114 can have a thermal conductivity less than about 0.2 W/mK, less than about 0.1 W/mK, and/or less than about 0.05 W/mK at 25 8 C, for example.
- the vial 106 and the insulating support 114 are different materials (e.g., the vial can comprise a glass and the insulating support can comprise a foam or a polymer).
- the vial can comprise a sealable vial.
- Another embodiment of the invention includes a method of freezing a liquid solution for subsequent lyophilization.
- the lyophilization chamber as described above is loaded with a liquid solution held in a container that includes a solute (e.g., an active pharmaceutical agent) and a solvent.
- the liquid solution will have a top surface 116 and a bottom surface, wherein the bottom surface 117 is proximal to the heat sink 101 (see Figure 5).
- the container is separated from the heat sink 101 by providing a thermal insulator 108 between the container and the heat sink 101 , the thermal insulator having the characteristics described herein.
- the container is spaced vertically from the heat sink with an intervening thermal insulator 108, the distance and thermal insulator 108 being selected to provide freezing of the liquid solution from the top and bottom surfaces at approximately the same rate.
- the liquid solution can be frozen by lowering the temperature of the heat sink 101 and thereby the ambient temperature in the lyophilization chamber.
- the liquid solution advantageously can be frozen from the top and the bottom surfaces at approximately the same rate to form a frozen solution.
- a further advantage is that the concurrent water to ice conversion at the top and bottom of the solution avoids problematic freeze-concentration and skin formation observed when the bottom of the solution freezes more rapidly than the top.
- a further embodiment of the inventions includes once frozen, the liquid solution (now the frozen solution) can be lyophilized to yield a lyophilized cake.
- the solution is lyophilized without any significant change in the thermal insulator 108 such as by example maintaining the physical arrangement of the container and heat sink elements.
- the container having the frozen liquid solution is placed in thermally-conductive contact with the heat sink during or following freezing, for example by removing the thermal insulator 108 and placing the tray 107 or containers directly on the shelf.
- Embodiments of the removal can comprise, removing the spacer 1 1 1 , moving the brackets 1 12 or altering the length of the struts (not shown).
- thermal insulator container not be placed in thermally conductive contact with the heat sink but the insulation characteristics of the thermal insulator 108 be altered such as by significantly lessening the insulation characteristics by reducing the spacing between the tray and heat sink to a minimal distance.
- thermal insulator 108 or portions thereof between one or more of the container and heat sink can dimensionally vary from the thermal insulator or portions thereof between one or more remaining containers.
- the thickness of the thermal insulator 108 can be reduced for edge and/or corner containers, relative to the thickness of the thermal insulator 108 between center containers and heat sink, in order to counterbalance the radiant heating experienced by such edge and corner containers from side walls and thus achieve more consistent temperature profiles across the array.
- the thermal insulator provides for the facile freezing of the liquid solution from the top and the bottom within the lyophilization chamber at approximately the same rate.
- the freezing of the liquid solution from the top and the bottom can be determined by measuring the temperature of the solution during the freezing process.
- the temperature can be measured by inserting at least two thermocouples into a vial containing the solution.
- a first thermocouple 118 can be positioned at the bottom of the solution, at about the center of the vial, for example, and a second thermocouple 119 can be positioned at the top of the solution, just below the surface of the solution, in about the center of the vial, for example.
- the thermal insulator e.g., type and thickness
- the thermal insulator can be selected to provide a water-ice conversion index value in a range of about -2 °C to about 2 °C, or about -1 °C to about 1 °C, and/or about -0.5 °C to about 0.5 "C.
- the water-ice conversion index is zero or a positive value.
- the water-ice conversion index is determined by a method including first plotting the temperatures reported by the thermocouples at the top (T t ) and at the bottom (T b ) of the solution as a function of time.
- the water-ice conversion index is the area between the curves, in "Ominute, between a first nucleation event and the end of water-ice conversion divided by the water-ice conversion time, in minutes.
- the water-ice conversion time is the time necessary for the temperature at the top (T,) of the solution to reduce in value below the freezing point plateau for the solution.
- the temperature data are collected by loading solution-filled vials into a lyophilization chamber.
- the temperature can then be recorded until a time after which the top and the bottom of the solution cool to a temperature below the freezing point plateau.
- the areas, positive and negative, are measured from the first nucleation event (observable in the plot of temperatures, e.g., such as in Figure 6) 122 until both temperature values cool below the freezing point plateau 123. The sum of these areas provides the area between the curves.
- the value is positive when the temperature at the bottom of the vial (T ) is warmer than the temperature at the top of the vial (T,) 120 and the value is negative when the temperature at the top of the vial (T,) is warmer than the temperature at the bottom of the vial (T b ) 121 .
- the water-ice conversion index is zero or a positive value. This condition will prevent the consequence that the freezing rate at the bottom of the solution is significantly higher than that at the top of the solution.
- the water-ice conversion index value in one type of embodiment will be in a range of about 0 S C to about 2 S C, or about 0 S C to about 1 S C, or about 0 8 C to about 0.5 8 C.
- the cooling rate, temperature of the tray, and the thermal insulator can be optimized to provide an area between the curves at or near 0 "Ominute.
- Figure 7 shows the water-ice conversion indices for 5 wt.% aqueous solutions of sucrose in vials on a stainless steel tray as a function of the distance from the heat sink surface to the stainless steel tray, with the thermal insulator 108 comprising air within a gap between the heat sink surface and the bottom of the stainless steel tray.
- the tray had a thickness of about 1 .2 mm.
- Still another embodiment of the invention is a lyophilized cake made by a method disclosed herein.
- the lyophilized cake can include a substantially dry lyophilized material and a plurality of pores in the lyophilized material having substantially the same pore size.
- the lyophilized cake has a pore size that is substantially larger than the pore size of a reference lyophilized cake comprising the same material as the lyophilized cake but made by a standard lyophilization process (e.g., placing a vial 106 comprising a liquid solution onto a heat sink 101 within a lyophilization chamber, excluding a thermal insulator between the vial and the heat sink 101 , lowering the temperature of the heat sink 101 and thereby freezing the liquid solution, and then lyophilizing the frozen solution).
- the cross-sectional area of the cylindrical pores of the lyophilized cake is preferably at least 1 .1 , 2, and/or 3 times greater than the cross-sectional area of the reference lyophilized cake.
- the lyophilized cake has a substantially consistent pore size throughout the cake.
- the size of pores in the lyophilized cake can be measured by a BET surface area analyzer.
- the effective pore radius (r e ), a measure of the pore size, can be calculated from the measured surface area of the pores (SSA) by assuming cylindrical pores.
- the primary drying cycle involved (a) holding the samples for 10 minutes at -70 °C and 70 mTorr, then (b) raising the temperature at a rate of 1 °C/min to -40 °C while maintaining 70 mTorr, then (c) holding the samples for 60 minutes at -40 °C and 70 mTorr, then (d) raising the temperature at a rate of 0.5 'C/min to -25 °C while maintaining 70 mTorr, and then (e) holding the samples for 64 hours at -25 °C and 50 mTorr;
- thermocouples were placed in center vials and six thermocouples were placed on the edge locations of the shelves, as shown in Figures 10 and 1 1 , wherein the numbers indicate temperature-probed vials.
- the shelf temperature (each) was cooled to -70 s C, followed by holding the shelf at -70 S C for 90 minutes. At this low shelf temperature, cooling of vials can be accelerated, since cooling with a gap is primarily driven by radiation.
- the shelf was then heated to -50 s C, followed by holding the shelf at -50 S C for 60 minutes. After the solution was frozen the shelf temperature was raised to a higher temperature of -50 B C because after complete freezing of the solution it is not necessary to maintain it at -70oC for vacuum pulling. For one of the trays, the thermal insulator 108 was removed prior to vacuum pulling by removing the spacer.
- the lyophilization chamber was then evacuated to a set- point of 100 mTorr, (b) the shelf temperature was held at -50 S C (at 100 mTorr) for 30 minutes; (c) the shelf temperature was then ramped to -15 S C (at 100 mTorr) at a rate of 0.5 s C/min; and (d) the shelf temperature was then held at -15 9 C (at 100 mTorr) until the end of primary drying.
- the vials on the tray without a thermal insulator between the tray and shelf during drying are dried much faster than those with a thermal insulator between the tray and shelf during drying.
- the tray without a thermal insulator during drying also has the advantage of reducing the temperature difference between the center and edge vials, which could be important for some temperature-sensitive
- a method comprising:
- a container comprising a liquid solution into a lyophilization chamber comprising a heat sink; the liquid solution comprising a solute and a solvent and
- a lyophilized cake comprising:
- [0085] 1 The lyophilized cake of the preceding paragraph, wherein the pore size is substantially larger than the pore size of a reference lyophilized cake; the reference lyophilized cake comprising the same material as the lyophilized cake but made by a method comprising loading a container comprising a liquid solution into a lyophilization chamber comprising a heat sink; the liquid solution comprising the material and a solvent; excluding a thermal insulator between the container and the heat sink; lowering the temperature of the heat sink and thereby the ambient temperature in the lyophilization chamber comprising the container comprising the liquid solution to a temperature sufficient to freeze the liquid solution; freezing the liquid solution; and lyophilizing the frozen solution.
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