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Anotlier standard metliod is to use a (high-speed) centrifuge to sediment tire colloids, replace tire supernatant and redisperse tire particles. Provided tire particles are well stabilized in tire solvent, tliis allows for a rigorous purification. Larger objects, such as particle aggregates, can be fractionated off because tliey settle first. A tliird metliod is (ultra)filtration, whereby larger impurities can be retained, particularly using membrane filters witli accurately defined pore sizes. 

Ultra filtration. This process removes macromolecules, microorganisms, particulate matter, and pyrogens using a thin, selectively permeable membrane. Ultrafiltration caimot remove ions from water and is generally employed as a polishing process. 

Separation methods based on size include size exclusion chromatography, ultra-filtration, and ultracentrifugation (see Chapter Appendix). The ionic properties of peptides and proteins are determined principally by their complement of amino acid side chains. Furthermore, the ionization of these groups is pH-dependent. 

As RO membranes become looser their salt rejection falls (see Section 31.8.1). Eventually a point is reached at which there is no rejection of salts, but the membrane still rejects particulates, colloids and very large molecules. The membrane pore size can be tailored to a nominal molecular weight cut-off. The resulting filtering process is called ultra-filtration. 

If we compare liquefaction to maceration, more activities are needed to liquefy the cell wall. Since 1991, new pectinases activities such as rhamnogalacturonase, pectin acetylesterase and xyloglucanases complex have been found to be important in the apple liquefaction by Henck Schols, Jean-Paul Vincken and Voragen [3]. The cellulose-xyloglucan complex accounts approximatively 57% of the apple cell-wall matrix. In a liquefaction process, an efficient enzymic degradation of this complex is crucial to increase the sugars extraction, to decrease the viscosity of the pulp then to be able to ultra-filtrate the juice without second depectinisation, at last to have negative alcohol tests required by some concentrate customers. 

The pineapple fruit is mainly processed for canning as slices or cubes. After cutting, the residual pulp is removed from the peel for cloudy juice production. Then, by-products are used to produce clear juice for slices cover or as clear concentrate. In the process of clear juice, by-products are crushed and pressed. The juice is pasteurized, cooled down and depectinized with enzymes at 50°C before ultra-filtration and concentration... 

Kragl and Dreisbach (1996) have carried out the enantioselective addition of diethyl zinc to benzaldehyde in a continuous asymmetric membrane reactor using a homogeneous soluble catalyst, described in their paper. Here a,a-diphenyl-L-proline was used as a chiral ligand, coupled to a copolymer made from 2-hydroxy ethyl methacrylate and octadecyl methacrylate, which had a sufficiently high molecular weight to allow separation by ultra-filtration (U/F). The solvent-stable polyaramide U/F Hoechst Nadir UF PA20 retained more than 99.8% of the catalyst. The ee was 80 %, compared to 98 % for a noncoupled catalyst. 

Figure 9. Variations of uranium (a) and thorium (b) contents in the filtrates of a sample as a function of the filtration size, and relation with the variations of the dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Data sources (1) Viers et al. (1997), (2) Dupre et al. (1999), (3) Porcelh et al. (1997, 2001), (4) Riotte et al. (2003). Filtrates are recovered by tangential ultra-filtration. Low filtration sizes are usually given in Dalton—a molecular weight unit of 1 g/mol—and are ranging between 3 and 300 kD. These filtration sizes have been converted here into an approximate rm pore size.

Ultra- filtration Water sample la filtered under pressure through a membrane that will pass molecular constituents below a certain size and retain those above that size. Large molecules Porosity of membrane daterminaa the size of molecules concentrated. Usually used for compounds > 1000 molecular weight. Can concentrate large sample volumes at low temperatures. 

Membrane filtration processes, such as reverse osmosis, and micro and ultra filtration, are used to filter out dissolved solids in certain applications see Table 10.9. These specialised processes will not be discussed in this book. A comprehensive description of the techniques used and their applications is given in Volume 2, Chapter 8 see also Scott and Hughes (1995), Cheryan (1986), McGregor (1986) and Porter (1997). 

W6. Wang, Y. S., Pekary, A. E England, M. L., and Hershman, J. M., Comparison of a new ultra-filtration method for serum free T4 and free T, with two RIA kits in eight groups of patients. J. Endocrinol. Invest. 8,495-500 (1985). 

A steady-state kinetics study for Hod was pursued to establish the substrate binding pattern and product release, using lH-3-hydroxy-4-oxoquinoline as aromatic substrate. The reaction proceeds via a ternary complex, by an ordered-bi-bi-mechanism, in which the first to bind is the aromatic substrate then the 02 molecule, and the first to leave the enzyme-product complex is CO [359], Another related finding concerns that substrate anaerobically bound to the enzyme Qdo can easily be washed off by ultra-filtration [360] and so, the formation of a covalent acyl-enzyme intermediate seems unlikely in the... 

Anesthetics Direct immersion CW-DVB (65) PA (85) PDMS (100) GC-NPD (LOQ 0.5 mmol/mL) Study of protein-binding ultra filtrate plasma Abdel-Rehim et al., 2000 (15)... 

Other applications of PVA are in areas of water and wastewater treatment (extraction, ultra-filtration, ion-exchange materials, etc.), catalysis, separation, etc. 

This blend is recommended as thin-gel composite membranes for bovine serum albumin ultra-filtration [114],... 

Hayward, M. J., Hargiss, L. O., Munson, J. L., Mandiyan, S. P. and Wennogle, L. P., Validation of Solubility Measurements Using Ultra-Filtration Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (UP-LC/MS), American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2000 Conference Abstract, Long Beach, CA, USA, 2000. 

Several affinity screening methodologies that include MS-based readout and work under protein-excess conditions have been developed in the past decade [1]. Some examples include affinity selection/mass spectrometry (ASMS Abbott Labs [10]), size exclusion chromatography with LC-ESI-MS (see Chapter 2 and 3 [11-19]), the use of coupled or non-coupled pulsed ultra-filtration/mass spectrometry (summarized in this chapter [11, 20-23]), restricted access phase chromatography (see Chapter 5 [24, 25]), capillary electrophoresis [26, 27], target shift mass spectrometry [28], and multitarget affinity/specificity screening (MASS, see Chapter 10 [29, 30]). 

Porter, M.C., "Concentration Polarization with Membrane Ultra-filtration", Ind. Eng. Chem. Prod. Res. Develop.,1972, 11 (3), 234-248... 

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