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Membrane Reactors

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Industrial Membrane Separation Technology

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Membrane reactors may be divided into two broad classes according to the area of application. For many years a number of biochemical processes have used membranes as a means of gas separation, for immobilisation of enzymes in biochemical reactors or as a means of adding oxidant gases to a biochemical mass. Examples of such processes include biogas production from wastes, effluent treatment in general and a number of downstream processing operations in biochemical processing. From a reactor point of view however, the main application is in the area of membrane-fixed enzymes. Use of such membranes in which the enzyme necessary for the biochemical transformation is immobilised enables the enzymes to be retained during processing and also ensures that the enzyme purity is not substantially adulterated. The enzyme may be immobilised in the porous structure of an asymmetric ultrafiltration membrane. Such a configuration has been shown to have considerable advantages over conventional production processes in terms of high enzyme density and high space-time yields. A number of reviews are available on the application of membranes in bioreactors (see for example those of Michaels and Matson1 and Drioli et al. 2

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Hughes, R. (1996). Membrane Reactors. In: Scott, K., Hughes, R. (eds) Industrial Membrane Separation Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0627-6_9

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