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Purification of Lactic Acid Produced by Fermentation: Focus on Non-traditional Distillation Processes
- Source :
- Separation & Purification Reviews. 46:241-254
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- Lactic acid is commonly used in a wide range of fields such as cosmetics, pharmaceutical products, chemistry and food. During the last years, its use for new applications such as production of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers, green solvents and oxygenated chemicals have received considerable attention. However, the relatively high production cost of lactic acid hinders many large-scale applications. In order to cheapen lactic acid production processes, it is necessary to develop more efficient methods of separation and purification. This work reviews some promising non-traditional distillation processes that are currently employed for lactic acid recovery, focusing on reactive distillation and molecular distillation. Advances in such distillation-based processes, their drawbacks and concluding remarks are also presented.
- Subjects :
- Biocompatible polymers
Vacuum distillation
Production cost
Filtration and Separation
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Pulp and paper industry
01 natural sciences
Analytical Chemistry
law.invention
Lactic acid
chemistry.chemical_compound
020401 chemical engineering
chemistry
law
Reactive distillation
Organic chemistry
Fermentation
0204 chemical engineering
Distillation
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15422127 and 15422119
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Separation & Purification Reviews
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........33cd437108a3a7c08395d3b82b4a1113