Continuous lipase-catalyzed production of wax ester using silicone tubing
(1999) In JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society 76(12). p.1489-1493- Abstract
Enzymatic synthesis of cetyl palmitate was performed in a solvent-free system at 65 °C using immobilized Candida antarctica lipase. Batch reactions at controlled water activity showed that the yield could be increased from 88.8 to 99.1% by decreasing the water activity from 1 to 0.05. A continuous reactor configuration was constructed, where two tubular reactors were run in sequence with a separation container in between, in which the water phase was separated from the wax ester phase. The reactor was run for 1 wk at low flow rate (0.005 g/min) with very good operational stability and a productivity of 7.2 g d-1 using 0.4 g of biocatalyst. The activity of the individual preparations decreased during operation. The first... (More)
Enzymatic synthesis of cetyl palmitate was performed in a solvent-free system at 65 °C using immobilized Candida antarctica lipase. Batch reactions at controlled water activity showed that the yield could be increased from 88.8 to 99.1% by decreasing the water activity from 1 to 0.05. A continuous reactor configuration was constructed, where two tubular reactors were run in sequence with a separation container in between, in which the water phase was separated from the wax ester phase. The reactor was run for 1 wk at low flow rate (0.005 g/min) with very good operational stability and a productivity of 7.2 g d-1 using 0.4 g of biocatalyst. The activity of the individual preparations decreased during operation. The first reactor had only 30% activity left after 1 wk of operation whereas the second reactor showed only a 10% decrease. This difference in enzyme stability is a direct result of the different water activity in the two reactors.
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- Wehtje, E. LU ; Costes, D. LU and Adlercreutz, P. LU
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- 1999-12-01
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society
- volume
- 76
- issue
- 12
- pages
- 5 pages
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- The American Oil Chemists' Society
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- scopus:0033352125
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- 0003-021X
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11746-999-0190-4
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- English
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