Recovery of alkaline proteases by membrane filtration |
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Authors: | J. A. L. Santos J. M. S. Cabral C. L. Cooney |
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Affiliation: | (1) Laboratório de Engenharia Bioquímica, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal;(2) Department of Chemical Engineering Biotechnology Process Engineering Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | This work describes the recovery of an extracellular alkaline protease from fermentation broths of a Bacillus sp ATCC 21536, at pH=10.0 using ultrafiltration (MWCO 100,000) and microfiltration (0.1 m) membranes in hollow fiber devices. The influence of membrane pore size and polymeric material and membrane filtration performance was studied. High protein recoveries and high average flux rates were obtained with polysulfone membranes. A decrease of concentration polarization was obtained, simultaneously with enhancement of filtration flux rate and enzyme recovery by using submicron sized charged particles. These polymers lead to flocculation and adsorption of whole cells and soluble factors from the fermentation broth. The best results were obtaiend by combination of cationic (0.1%) and anionic (0.04%) polymers. |
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