Modeling pH and Solubilities in Aqueous Multisolute Amino Acid Solutions

The solubility of amino acids is highly depending on the prevailing pH value. However, this dependency is neglected in the state-of-the-art modeling of solubilities in multisolute solutions. In order to describe the pH-dependency of the solubilities, the PC-SAFT model is applied to aqueous solutions containing two amino acids accounting for their dissociation/association equilibria. This approach is applied to four ternary mixtures with pronounced pH-dependent solubility behavior allowing for a good description of experimental amino acid solubilities depending on temperature, cosolute concentration, and pH value. The systems considered within this work each contain two amino acids which show big differences in pI, i.e., L-glutamic acid or L/DL-aspartic acid on the one hand and glycine or L-serine on the other hand, respectively.