originally isolated from the bark of Taxus brevifolia
is a very important new anti-tumor drug.Reversed phase chromatography provides a rapid
efficient
and inexpensive method to separate and purify taxol. However
it is very important to scae-up the isolation process in order to obtain a large amount of taxol. From studies on the basic transport phenomena between solid phase and liquid phase
the rate model for non linear liquid chromatography under normal pressure is proposed.The process of taxol separation on C 18 - silica gel column could be described by this model very well.The numerical solution of model agrees well with experimental data.The factors affecting the separation of taxol
including feed concentration
feed rate and column size are investigated.It is confirmed that the mathematical model could be very useful for scaling-up chromatographic operation.