Fluidized Bed Design Parameters Affecting Novel Lactic Acid Downstream Processing

AV SOSA,; PR CORDOBA,; PEROTTI, N

BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Año: 2001 vol. 17 p. 1079 - 1083

8756-7938

actic acid purification was directly done from fermentation utilizing a fluidized bed column refilled with a strong anionic exchange resin. The purpose of this work was to study the influence of two important design parameters, bed-diameter (D) and bed-height (H), in the lactic acid binding and elution capacity of the matrix. By changing the settled bed height from 2.5 to 5 cm for each diameter of column analyzed it was possible to obtain an 50% increase in the binding capacity of the resin in all experiments. This fact was attributed to a higher contact time between the culture broth and the anionic resin produced by the increase of back mixing and lactic acid residence time.