Abstract
Background: Whey is a valuable by-product obtained from cheese manufacture and employed as a source of proteins that present remarkable potential in food or pharmaceutical industries. Although chromatography is the common method to isolate whey proteins at preparative scale, it reports some disadvantages like its high operational cost.
Objective: Membrane processes can play an important role in protein separation, as a consequence of the relatively lower energy consumption, good yields and easy scalability. Important effort has been done on the development of membrane chromatography as an innovative technique to obtain and isolate the different whey proteins. Pressure-driven membrane processes have become standard unit operations in different applications performed in the dairy industry. In this sense, membrane filtration can be applied for protein separation and isolation under adequate conditions. Conclusion: The application of an electrical field or the use of charged membranes combined with pressuredriven membrane processes, provide good results and decrease undesirable phenomena such as concentration polarization when compared to conventional membrane separations. This manuscript provides an overview of the main membrane methods employed in the literature to carry out the separation and isolation of whey proteins.Keywords: Whey proteins, membrane chromatography, ultrafiltration, electrical field, charged membranes, membrane contactor.
Current Organic Chemistry
Title:Membrane Processes for Whey Proteins Separation and Purification. A Review
Volume: 21 Issue: 17
Author(s): R. Aguero, E. Bringas, M.F. San Román, I. Ortiz and R. Ibañez*
Affiliation:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, ETSIIyT, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros s/n, 39005 Santander,Spain
Keywords: Whey proteins, membrane chromatography, ultrafiltration, electrical field, charged membranes, membrane contactor.
Abstract: Background: Whey is a valuable by-product obtained from cheese manufacture and employed as a source of proteins that present remarkable potential in food or pharmaceutical industries. Although chromatography is the common method to isolate whey proteins at preparative scale, it reports some disadvantages like its high operational cost.
Objective: Membrane processes can play an important role in protein separation, as a consequence of the relatively lower energy consumption, good yields and easy scalability. Important effort has been done on the development of membrane chromatography as an innovative technique to obtain and isolate the different whey proteins. Pressure-driven membrane processes have become standard unit operations in different applications performed in the dairy industry. In this sense, membrane filtration can be applied for protein separation and isolation under adequate conditions. Conclusion: The application of an electrical field or the use of charged membranes combined with pressuredriven membrane processes, provide good results and decrease undesirable phenomena such as concentration polarization when compared to conventional membrane separations. This manuscript provides an overview of the main membrane methods employed in the literature to carry out the separation and isolation of whey proteins.Export Options
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Aguero R., Bringas E., Román San M.F., Ortiz I. and Ibañez R.*, Membrane Processes for Whey Proteins Separation and Purification. A Review, Current Organic Chemistry 2017; 21 (17) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1385272820666160927122523
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1385272820666160927122523 |
Print ISSN 1385-2728 |
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