Post on 30-Sep-2020
ARTEMISIA PROJECT Production of Artemisia annua L. (Asteraceae)
and artemisinin in ArgentinaCristian Desmarchelier, PhD
Project Manager
Fundación Mundo Sanodel Libertador Av 1146 Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.mundosano.org
Agronomic production
Garruchos SA
STAGES OF THE PROJECT
Artemisinin extraction
Chemotecnica ELEA Labs
Synthesis ofartesunateELEA Labs
Mediplant (Switzerland)
Dept. Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Bath (UK)
R&D Chemo Group(Argentina)
Fundación Mundo Sano
TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY (PILOT SCALE)
Technical constraints(critical cost drivers)
Scaleup (fixed costs per unit)
ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY (PRODUCTION SCALE)
BUSINESS PLAN
35 Extraction 1 kg ART (46% purity)
100%TOTAL
10 Final purification 1 kg ART (>95% purity)
10 Postharvest and transport costs
45 Production 200 kg biomass
Cost % (per kg ART)Activity
COST ANALYSIS
CRITICAL COST DRIVERS: FARMING
SEEDLINGS
DRILLING
Mass sowing?Controlled distance sowing?
CRITICAL COST DRIVERS: POST HARVEST MANAGEMENT
Petroleum ether + acetonitrile (95:5)4
Biomass1+
Crystallize 24 hs w/ activated carbon 15´(1% P/V) followed by celite (1% (P/V) 30´
Concentration to 20% of original volume(recovery = 75%)
FILTRATION AND WASHING OF CRYSTALS
ART 48%
ANALYSIS* (Product)
30°C; 40 RPP; 2 hs
MARC1
Chloroform10
+
30°C; overnight
Filtration, evaporate+20 ml acetonitrile (2:1)
ANALYSIS* (Residue)
*HPLC (Shimadzu Prominence) with UVvis (SPDM20A, DAD)
CRITICAL COST DRIVERS: EXTRACTION & PURIFICATION
CRITICAL COST DRIVERS: EXTRACTION & PURIFICATION
Pilot scale extraction vessel (400 lt) with anchor stirrer, liquid feed, temperature probe and bottom valve opening.
Lab scale percolator (20 lt) withpump (solventtravels “through”Biomass)
2 stages:
48% purity>95% purity
CRITICAL COST DRIVERS: DERIVITISATION
Artemisia annua L. (Asteraceae)
Artemisinin
Artesunate
Artemether
DHA
Malaria and Artemisia annua production in South AmericaAgricultural ventures
Tropic of Capricorn
THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!
Cristian Desmarchelier, PhD
Fundación Mundo Sanodel Libertador Ave 1146 Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.mundosano.org