Emulsion liquid membranes description

A most comprehensive description of the emulsion liquid membrane is available in Ho and Sirkar (2001,... 

The water phase can also be recharged with fresh substrate in an emulsion reactor, where a hydrophilic membrane is used to cleave the emulsion (Fig. lOd) [49]. In this type of reactor as well as in the bimembrane reactor the enzyme is well separated from the organic phase. This is important as interphases, e.g., between two immiscible solvents or between a liquid and a gas differing widely in the dielectric constants, may lead to protein denaturation. A more detailed description of these reactors can be found in the references given or for membrane reactors in general [35,106-108]. 

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