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The Effect of Different Activated Carbon and Bleaching Temperature on Kojic Acid Bleaching

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In this paper, the effects of six different types of activated carbons on decolorization of kojic were studied and two kinds of them were picked out based on the decoloration rate or kojic acid yield, respectively. After mixing in different proportions, the effects of different ratios of the two activated carbons at different bleaching temperature conditions on kojic bleaching were determined by experiments. The results show that the decoloration rate was the highest (79.84 %) at 70 °C when the ratio of 767 was 20 % (total 0.2 g of activated carbon), and it had a higher yield of kojic acid (91.26 %), while the highest kojic acid rate (94.06 %) was obtained at 80 °C when the ratio of 767 was 100 %; the decoloration rate was also better (73.26 %) under these conditions. In contrast, the better bleaching effect with minimum energy consumption was at 50 °C when the ratio of 767 was 40 %, the kojic acid yield reached more than 90 %. These three combined ratios have their own advantages, according to the different needs for various occasions.

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The authors are grateful to Prof. Dongguang Xiao (College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology) for providing technical assistance.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Shandong Microbial Engineering, Shandong Polytechnic University, Jinan, 250353, China

    Wu Meng

  2. Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, TEDA, Tianjin, 300457, China

    Wu Meng, Cuiying Zhang & Dongguang Xiao

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  1. Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China

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    Motowo Nakajima

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Meng, W., Zhang, C., Xiao, D. (2015). The Effect of Different Activated Carbon and Bleaching Temperature on Kojic Acid Bleaching. In: Zhang, TC., Nakajima, M. (eds) Advances in Applied Biotechnology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46318-5_35

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