Title
Study of chitosan enzymatic gelation kinetics for membrane preparation
Conference Dates
June 19-24, 2016
Abstract
Chitosan is a natural biopolymer with excellent sorption properties that can be used to prepare flat-sheet “greener” filtration/sorption membranes without using organic solvent. The first step in chitosan membrane preparation, before drying and cross-linking steps, lies in the formation of a chitosan gel. Generally, chitosan is initially dissolved in acidic water then gelation is induced by basic media intake (usually ammonia) from liquid or vapor phase (Equation 1). However, the gelation process is initiated on one face of the polymer solution, which induces a non-solvent concentration gradient leading to a heterogeneous structure of the gel. An original enzymatic gelation process has been recently proposed (Chenite et al. 2006, Yan et al. 2014), based on the in-situ production of ammonia in the chitosan solution by the enzymatic hydrolysis of urea by urease (Equation 2).
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Recommended Citation
Jean-Pierre Méricq, Damien Wlodarczyk, Laurence Soussan, Denis Bouyer, and Catherine Faur, "Study of chitosan enzymatic gelation kinetics for membrane preparation" in "5th International Congress on Green Process Engineering (GPE 2016)", Franco Berruti, Western University, Canada Cedric Briens, Western University, Canada Eds, ECI Symposium Series, (2016). https://dc.engconfintl.org/gpe2016/62