Abstract:
A separation process for isolation and purification of useful nutrients from food process streams is described. The process includes the steps of contacting an aqueous solution including a nutrient and divalent ions with an ion exchange resin including monovalent ions. The eluate which is depleted of divalent ions is collected and subjected to a process capable of separating monovalent ions to obtain a permeate fraction including monovalent ions and a retentate fraction including said nutrient. The retentate is separated into fractions, wherein at least one of said fractions includes the major portion of said nutrient, which may then be further purified. The ion-exchange resin can be regenerated by contacting the ion-exchange resin with a solution including the permeate fraction until a major portion of divalent ions in the ion exchange resin have been replaced by monovalent ions.
Abstract:
Methods of extracting lactose from whey are disclosed herein. Such methods can include removing water from the whey, thereby causing precipitation of lactose from the whey. The resulting heterogeneous mixture may be passed through one or more vibrating filters to separate the solid lactose from the liquid portion of the whey. Related products, such as the lactose-enriched retentate and the lactose-depleted filtrate obtained from such processes, are also disclosed herein.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the enzymatic preparation of galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS). Provided is a method for preparing GOS from lactose, comprising (i) contacting a lactose feed with immobilized beta- galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) and (ii) allowing for GOS synthesis, wherein said lactose feed is an aqueous slurry of crystalline lactose.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of recovering lactose from a lactose- containing liquid source comprising providing a lactose-containing liquid source, crystallising the lactose in the lactose-containing liquid source to generate one or more lactose-containing liquid streams, recovering a lactose-containing extract from the one or more lactose-containing liquid streams by subjecting the one or more lactose-containing liquid streams to filtration to remove cells, proteins, polypeptides, polysaccharides, lipid, ions or salts. The method also includes processing the lactose-containing liquid streams using at least nanofiltration, ultrafiltration and/or centrifugal separation and recycling the lactose-containing extract into the lactose-containing liquid source.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of crystallising lactose from a lactose-containing liquid comprising the steps of providing a lactose-containing liquid comprising less than 80% by weight total solids, providing an evaporator system that comprises a heat exchanger and an evaporation vessel, the heat exchanger comprising a tube or tubes that define a flowpath having an inlet and an outlet, heating the lactose-containing liquid in the heat exchanger to about 50 to about 90° C such that the lactose-containing liquid passes along the flowpath by forced circulation or thermo-siphoning, concentrating the lactose-containing liquid in the evaporation vessel, to generate crystallised lactose in the lactose-containing liquid in the evaporator system.
Abstract:
In one embodiment of the invention a method to prepare sucralose-6-acylate through chlorinating sucrose-6-acylater by BTC in the process of sucralose preparation is disclosed. In this embnodiment a Vilsmeier reagent is firstly prepared belowe 0 °C by dissolving BTC in DMF or in component solvent, containing DMF, toluene, dichloroethane, chloroform and carbon tetrachloride. Consequently, sucrose-6-ester was chlorinated by Vilsmeier reagent. BTC can also be dissolved in one or several organic solvent such as toluene, dichloroethane, chloroform and carbon tetrachloride, and added to a DMF solution of sucrose-6-acylate for chlorination. Sucralose was prepared through de-esterifying the obtained sucralosed 6-ester using sodium methoxide/methanol or sodium ethoxide/ethanol.
Abstract:
A process for forming crystalline lactose suitable for use in a pharmaceutical formulation comprises subjecting a solution comprising a plurality of nanosized lactose particles to conditions sufficient to cause crystallization to occur on the nanosized lactose particles such that a plurality of lactose particles are formed therefrom having a median diameter ranging from about 4 μm to about 20 μm.
Abstract:
A process for forming lactose suitable for use in a pharmaceutical formulation comprises providing a plurality of lactose particles containing no more than 10% w/w of lactose particles having a volume average particle size of about 70 microns or less; milling the plurality of lactose particles to yield a plurality of milled lactose particles with an average particle size, (D50), ranging from about 50 microns to about 100 microns; and classifying the plurality of milled lactose particles into at least two fractions comprising a fine fraction and a coarse fraction wherein the fine fraction has an average particle size, (D50), ranging from about 3 microns to about 50 microns, and the coarse fraction has an average particle size, (D50), ranging from about 40 microns to about 250 microns.
Abstract:
A process for preparing a dehydrated biological sample comprising providing a biological sample selected from a mammalian species, loading with a solute the biological sample having an alcohol by fluid phase endocytosis to produce an internally loaded biological sample, and drying the loaded biological sample to produce a dehydrated biological sample.
Abstract:
La présente invention concerne un procédé de production de lactose partir de lactosérum ou d'un perméat résultant de l'ultrafiltration de lactosérum. Il comprend les opérations : (a) de substitution d'une partie au moins des cations polyvalents du lactosérum ou perméat par des cations métalliques monovalents, pour obtenir un lactosérum ou un perméat appauvri en cations polyvalents, (b) de substitution d'une partie au moins des anions polyvalents minéraux et anions d'acides organiques du lactosérum ou perméat, par des anions monovalents non aptes à former des complexes avec les cations polyvalents, cette opération (b) étant effectuée avant ou simultanément à l'opération (a), et (c) de cristallisation du lactosérum ou perméat résultant des opérations (a) et (b), pour obtenir du lactose cristallisé et des eaux-mères enrichies en cations métalliques monovalents.