<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Hyaluronic acid (HA) has important applications in fields of health care products, cosmetics and clinical medical. However, the unique physiological properties of HA make cost of its traditional separation and extraction process relatively high. Foam separation technique has simple, gentle and efficient advantages on the separation of substances with surface activity by using bubbles as the separation medium. In this paper, natural surfactant CocamideBetaine (CAPB) was used as a foaming agent to explore the technology of microscale HA in aqueous solution by foam separation. The optimum process conditions were determined based on the recovery rate and enrichment ratio of HA by single factor and orthogonal experiment: at room temperature, pH = 7, separating air velocity (v) = 350 mL/min, HA concentration (CHA) = 50 mg/L, adding liquid volume (V) = 200 mL, collecting time (tcol) = 10 min, CAPB concentration (CCAPB) = 0.035 g/L. Under these conditions, HA enrichment ratio (E) equals 6.821 and HA recovery rate (R) equals 66.425%.</abstract>

Hyaluronic acid (HA) has important applications in fields of health care products, cosmetics and clinical medical. However, the unique physiological properties of HA make cost of its traditional separation and extraction process relatively high. Foam separation technique has simple, gentle and efficient advantages on the separation of substances with surface activity by using bubbles as the separation medium. In this paper, natural surfactant CocamideBetaine (CAPB) was used as a foaming agent to explore the technology of microscale HA in aqueous solution by foam separation. The optimum process conditions were determined based on the recovery rate and enrichment ratio of HA by single factor and orthogonal experiment: at room temperature, pH = 7, separating air velocity (v) = 350 mL/min, HA concentration (CHA) = 50 mg/L, adding liquid volume (V) = 200 mL, collecting time (tcol) = 10 min, CAPB concentration (CCAPB) = 0.035 g/L. Under these conditions, HA enrichment ratio (E) equals 6.821 and HA recovery rate (R) equals 66.425%.

The separation of microscale HA in aqueous solution by foam separation technique

Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Polish Journal of Chemical Technology

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Hyaluronic acid (HA) has important applications in fields of health care products, cosmetics and clinical medical. However, the unique physiological properties...

The separation of microscale HA in aqueous solution by foam separation technique

Online veröffentlicht: 31. Dez. 2019

Seitenbereich: 66 - 71

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjct-2019-0041

Schlüsselwörter
Foam Separation, Hyaluronic Acid, Enrichment Ratio, Recovery Rate

© 2019 Shao Wenyao et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The separation of microscale HA in aqueous solution by foam separation technique

Online veröffentlicht: 31. Dez. 2019

Seitenbereich: 66 - 71

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjct-2019-0041

SchlüsselwörterFoam Separation, Hyaluronic Acid, Enrichment Ratio, Recovery Rate

© 2019 Shao Wenyao et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
Foam Separation, Hyaluronic Acid, Enrichment Ratio, Recovery Rate