Transport phenomena in foam fractionation

泡沫分馏中的传输现象

• 批准号: DP0878979
• 负责人: Prof Geoffrey Evans
• 金额: $ 31.05万
• 依托单位: The University of Newcastle
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0878979
• 关键词: Transport; phenomena; foam; fractionation

Foam fractionation has a number of immediate applications in mineral and food processing but its most exciting potential is as low cost alternative for recovering and purifying high value biosurfactants. These are materials used to stabilise interfaces in living systems, and can be used as antibiotics and antiviral agents. The affinity for biosurfactants to collect at an interface suggests that foam fractionation is an ideal process to concentrate valuable products. Clearly, a cost-effective and reliable method of enriching streams of biosurfactants will make their use even more attractive and will engender the development of more novel biomaterials, such as pepfactants.

泡沫分馏在矿物和食品加工中有许多直接的应用，但其最令人兴奋的潜力是作为回收和纯化高价值生物表面活性剂的低成本替代方案。这些是用来稳定生命系统界面的材料，可以用作抗生素和抗病毒药物。生物表面活性剂在界面上的亲和力表明泡沫分馏是一种浓缩有价值产品的理想方法。显然，一种具有成本效益且可靠的富集生物表面活性剂的方法将使它们的应用更具吸引力，并将催生更多新型生物材料的开发，如pepfactant。