Team Members
Bianca Dyer
Riley Flower
Remsha Rafiq
Abdirahman (Abdi) Shukri
Supervisors
Mark Juba, Adj. Prof, Chemical Engineering
Customers
Eastman Kodak Company
Description
Kodak produces dye used in motion picture films. One of the dyes, called LUV dye, has impurities that must be removed after one of the production stages. The project goal was to develop a process that is inexpensive to install and operate, capable of meeting all purity specifications, and scaleable up to 2 kg/day throughput. The team investigated adsorption column chromatography to remove the impurities, where thin layer chromatography was performed to determine the best solvent(s) for optimal separation.
Kodak’s Current Purification Method: Wiped Film Evaporator 
Team’s Proposed Solution: Adsorption Column Chromatography 
Molecular Structure of LUV Dye