Title
Erythromycin degradation by an esterase in enzymatic membrane reactors
Conference Dates
June 19-24, 2016
Abstract
1 Introduction
Pharmaceuticals products (PPs) and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) as well as their transformation products have been detected in almost all effluents from sewage facilities, in surface water, in groundwater, adsorbed on sediments and even in drinking water [1,2]. Ecotoxicity studies have demonstrated that pharmaceutical pollutants could affect the growth, reproduction and behavior of birds, fishes, invertebrates, plants and bacteria [3,4]. Some recently published studies report that the presence of low concentrations of antibiotics in the wastewaters may develop antibiotic resistance in the whole environment [5, 6]. As previously reported by Demarche et al. [7], the use of enzymes might be beneficial to enhance or complement conventional wastewater treatments. As far as enzymes are relatively expensive the reuse of the biocatalyst appears to be essential to ensure the economic and industrial viability of the process. Enzymatic membrane reactors appear to be an interesting alternative since they enable to couple reaction and separation [8]. In fact, in such enzymatic reactors, the substrate is continuously brought in contact with the biocatalyst, which is retained by the membrane, either freely circulating with the retentate or fixed on or within the membrane and the reaction products are recovered in the permeate.
This work describes the study of erythromycin degradation by an EreB esterase in free and immobilized forms. It focuses on the comparison between 3 different enzymatic membrane reactors for erythromycin degradation by esterase EreB. In the first configuration the free biocatalyst was confined in the reaction media by a ceramic membrane. In the two other cases, the enzyme was immobilized in the membrane either covalently grafted or adsorbed.
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Recommended Citation
Jose Sanchez Marcano, Matthias de Cazes, Marie Pierre Belleville, Eddy Petit, Mathias Salomo, Sally Bayer, Rico Czaja, and Jean De Gunzburg, "Erythromycin degradation by an esterase in enzymatic membrane reactors" 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/gpe2016/34