Acid Protease and its Immobilization in Mesoporous Activated Carbon

ISBN-13: 9783846581322 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str.

Ganesan Sekaran; Arumugam Ganeshkumar

Opis

The leather manufacturing industries generate 350 kg of non-tanned solid wastes that include proteinaceous animal fleshing (ANFL). The recovery of value added products such as enzymes from the solid wastes has been largely a neglected field. Reports on the utilization of ANFL as the substrate for the production of acid protease are very scanty or perhaps nil. The present investigation was focused on the production of acid protease from animal fleshing (ANFL) as the substrate using isoloated acidophiles. The enzyme was purified and immobilized in mesoporous activated carbon. The immobilized acid protease was used for the degradation of proteins in aqueous solution.

O autorze

Dr.G.Sekaran, is the Chief scientist & head of the Environmental technology Division, CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, India. He has 32 years of research experience in the field of Environmental Science and Engineering with more than 120 publications and 15 patents. He is the inventor of CAACO technology for the treatment of wastewater.