Purification device

Abstract

The present invention aims to provide a compound purification apparatus capable of providing a high purity compound in high yield and at low cost. The present invention relates to an apparatus for purifying a compound, the purification apparatus including: a crystallizing unit including a crystal forming section; and a wash column including a mechanism that forcibly transfers crystals, the crystallizing unit including N tanks connected in series, wherein N is 2 or greater, a 1st tank is a most downstream tank, a (N)th tank is a most upstream tank, at least the 1st tank is a crystallization tank including a cooling mechanism, and a 2nd and subsequent tanks are each a crystallization tank or a ripening tank, the purification apparatus including a line that feeds a compound-containing liquid to be purified to at least one of the N tanks, the wash column including: a line that sends a product out; and a line that returns a mother liquor to the crystallizing unit, with the line that returns a mother liquor to the crystallizing unit being connected to at least the (N)th tank, the crystallizing unit including: a line that feeds a slurry from the (N)th tank to the wash column; a line that sends a slurry from a tank among the 1st to (N−1)th tanks to the next upstream tank; and a line that is provided to each of the 1st to (N−1)th tanks and that sends thereto a mother liquor withdrawn from an upstream tank, wherein at least one of the lines that send a slurry from a tank among the 1st to (N−1)th tanks to the next upstream tank is a line that sends a slurry from a tank to the next upstream tank via a solid-liquid separator and that has a line that returns a mother liquor from which crystals are removed in the solid-liquid separator to the tank where the slurry came from, and wherein the line that is provided to each of the 1st to (N−1)th tanks and that sends thereto a mother liquor withdrawn from an upstream tank is a line that directly sends a mother liquor withdrawn from a tank one upstream or a line that sends a mother liquor withdrawn from a tank one upstream via a solid-liquid separator, the purification apparatus further including a line that sends a mother liquor to the outside of the purification apparatus.

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