The performance of immobilized glucose isomerase supported by shrimp chitin in various types of reactors
✍ Scribed by Fu-Sen Chen; Hung-Shan Weng; Ching-Liang Lai
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 402 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-3592
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✦ Synopsis
Five different types of reactors were employed for glucose isomerization using shrimp shell as the support on which to immobilize the glucose isomerase. The Michaelis-Menten constants and effective diffusivity of glucose in the immobilized enzyme bed were experimentally determined and used in a theoretical analysis of the radial-flow reactor. The fractional conversions of the radial-flow, fluidized-bed, and packed-bed reactors with the same residence time were found experimentally to be almost the same. This result reveals that the use of radial-flow and fluidizedbed reactors for this immobilized enzyme system is highly feasible.