Sustainable approach in recycling of phase components of large scale aqueous two-phase flotation for lipase recovery

• Main Authors: Sankaran, Revathy, Show, Pau Loke, Yap, Yee Jiun, Lam, Hon Loong, Ling, Tau Chuan, Pan, Guan Ting, Yang, Thomas C.K.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QH Natural history
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/20778/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.301
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Recently, aqueous two-phase flotation system has become a powerful method for separation of biomolecules. However, the application of this technique for large scale operation elevates a concern on the environmental issue. This is due to the large amount of chemical consumption for phase components f...