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Enzymatic production of fructooligosaccharides from inexpensive and abundant substrates using a membrane reactor system |
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| Authors: | Amad Ur Rehman Zoltan Kovacs Hendrich Quitmann Mehrdad Ebrahimi Peter Czermak |
| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Bioprocess Engineering and Pharmaceutical Technology, Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences, Giessen, Germanypeter.czermak@kmub.thm.de;3. Department of Food Engineering, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary;4. Institute of Bioprocess Engineering and Pharmaceutical Technology, Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences, Giessen, Germany;5. Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA |
| Abstract: | The concept of zero waste in the sugar industry has encouraged the development of technologies that promote utilization of by-products, including the enzymatic conversion of waste feed stocks into nutraceutical products. Here we investigated a membrane reactor for the production of fructooligosaccharides (FOS) with immobilized enzyme (Pectinex Ultra SP-L) system using pretreated molasses as substrate with cleaning efficiency and less fouling as performance tools. The resulting spectra showed a high FOS yield of 63% with 89% conversion from available sucrose. So, the enzymatic membrane reactor system with innovative continuous separation of enzyme was proved to fit for the production of FOS. |
| Keywords: | Beet molasses enzymatic membrane reactor (EMR) fructooligosaccharides (FOS) inexpensive Pectinex Ultra SP-L |