Bromelain estraction and purification from pineapple economic viability studies / Analise de viabilidade economica de um processo de extração e purificação da bromelina do abacaxi

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

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Brazil is one of the world?s largest producers of pineapples, its production being the third one in the world. To take advantage of the residues from fruit processing, many studies have been conducted to obtain proteolytic enzymes from them. These proteolytic enzymes are extracted mainly from fig (ficine), papaya (papain), and pineapple (bromelain). Bromelain is a mixture of proteolytic enzymes found in Bromeliaceae family. It is an enzyme with ample use in food industry for meat tenderizer and beer clarification, in leather and pharmaceutical industries, in drugs for digestion disorders, anti-inflammatory action, and anti-colitis action. The development of new extraction and purification processes of proteins is very important, as this is a limiting step in the production of byoproducts. The present work proposes a recovery process of bromelain from pineapples by precipitation of their pressed juice with cold ethanol, whereby a one stage precipitation with 80% v/v of ethanol at 5°C made possible the recovery of practically all originally present enzyme, increasing from 3 to 5 times the initial specific activity and purification by a liquid-liquid extraction in two aqueous phases, formed by immiscible aqueous phases or partially miscible ones, which are obtained from the addition of hydrophilic polymers or one of these polymers and a salt, such as PEG system (polyethylene-glycol) and potassium phosphate. This work presents a study about the costs of this process and the estimated sale prices as well as its return of investment, showing its economic viability, whether it is for use as a pre-process in traditional chromatographic systems or direct commercialisation, as an alternative for the pineapple producer of the juice market

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abacaxi bromelina liquid-liquid extraction extração (quimica) bromelain separation processes biotecnologia biotechnology pineapple

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