Enzymatic hydrolysis of polyethylene terephthalate films in an ultrafiltration membrane reactor

2015 ◽  
Vol 494 ◽  
pp. 182-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Barth ◽  
Ren Wei ◽  
Thorsten Oeser ◽  
Johannes Then ◽  
Juliane Schmidt ◽  
...  
1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 647-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Ohlson ◽  
Gun Trägårdh ◽  
Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal

1983 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 407-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Alfani ◽  
Maria Cantarella ◽  
Vincenzo Scardi

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 917-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zbyszko Lubiewski ◽  
Joanna Le Thanh ◽  
Grażyna Lewandowicz

2014 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 72-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ren Wei ◽  
Thorsten Oeser ◽  
Markus Barth ◽  
Nancy Weigl ◽  
Anja Lübs ◽  
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Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1703
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Mukhtar Nuhu Yahya ◽  
Hüseyin Gökçekuş ◽  
Derin Orhon ◽  
Bülent Keskinler ◽  
Ahmet Karagunduz ◽  
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1. Background: Urea is the main product of the nitrogenous breakdown of protein metabolism in mammals. In this study, process intensification for enzymatic hydrolysis of urea by urease enzyme (jack bean urease) was examined in a membrane reactor. 2. Methods: Batch and continuous enzymatic hydrolysis reactions were performed at different substrate concentrations to determine the digestibility and affinity of the substrate with that of the enzyme. The hydrolysate samples were obtained by an optimized continuous enzyme membrane reactor (EMR) coupled with an ultra-filtration membrane (250 kDa). Feed concentration varied from 100 to 500 mg/L. Laboratory experiments were conducted at room temperature (20 ± 1 °C), with a flow rate of 20 mL/min, urease concentration of 0.067 g/L, ionic strength (I = 0, 0.01, 0.05), and ammonium nitrogen addition of (0, 100 mg/L, 200 mg/L, 500 mg/L). Moreover, the effect of ionic strength, ammonium nitrogen concentration, feed concentration, and enzyme concentration on urea hydrolysis was examined. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDAX) analysis were used to identify the physicochemical properties as well as the elemental composition of the Ultra-Filtration membrane used in this study. 3. Results: The study revealed that higher ionic strength and higher concentrations of NH4SO2 and ammonium nitrogen (NH3-N) inhibithydrolysis of urea by reducing the urease enzyme activity in the system over time. 4. Conclusions: Herein, a sustainable alternative for the conversion of urea to ammonia by utilizing urease in an EMR was demonstrated.


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 50-58 ◽  
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Thaothy Nguyenhuynh ◽  
Rajesh Nithyanandam ◽  
Chien Hwa Chong ◽  
Duduku Krishnaiah

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2012 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
pp. 309-315 ◽  
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Hua Hang ◽  
Wanmeng Mu ◽  
Bo Jiang ◽  
Meng Zhao ◽  
Liuming (Leon) Zhou ◽  
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Author(s):  
Rui Xue ◽  
Yinping Chen ◽  
Huan Rong ◽  
Ren Wei ◽  
Zhongli Cui ◽  
...  

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a mass-produced petroleum-based non-biodegradable plastic that contributes to the global plastic pollution. Recently, biocatalytic degradation has emerged as a viable recycling approach for PET waste, especially with thermophilic polyester hydrolases such as a cutinase (LCC) isolated from a leaf-branch compost metagenome and its variants. To improve the enzymatic PET hydrolysis performance, we fused a chitin-binding domain (ChBD) from Chitinolyticbacter meiyuanensis SYBC-H1 to the C-terminus of the previously reported LCCICCG variant, demonstrating higher adsorption to PET substrates and, as a result, improved degradation performance by up to 19.6% compared to with its precursor enzyme without the binding module. For compare hydrolysis with different binding module, the catalytic activity of LCCICCG-ChBD, LCCICCG-CBM, LCCICCG-PBM and LCCICCG-HFB4 were further investigated with PET substrates of various crystallinity and it showed measurable activity on high crystalline PET with 40% crystallinity. These results indicated that fusing a polymer-binding module to LCCICCG is a promising method stimulating the enzymatic hydrolysis of PET.


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