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Process for the production and extraction of polysaccharides from a porphyridium cruentum culture and apparatus for performing the process
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Inventors: Barnier, Henri; Ferreira Dos Santos, Patrick F.; Gudin, Claude; Thepenier, Catherine;
Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (Paris, FR)
Primary Examiner: Griffin; Ronald W.
Assistant Examiner: White; Everett
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Pearne, Gordon, McCoy & Granger
Process for the production and extraction of polysaccharides from a porphyridium cruentum culture and apparatus for performing the process. This production and extraction process comprises a stage of concentrating the polysaccharides consisting of leaving the culture medium (1) in a photoreactor (22) exposed to sunlight under stagnant conditions and at ambient temperature, leading to the formation of a polysaccharide-rich cream (23) and recovering said cream by skimming, a stage (24) of heating the concentrate obtained at a temperature between 60.degree. and 100.degree. C., a stage of separating the solid and liquid phases formed (26), a stage (30) of precipitating the polysaccharides contained in the liquid phase and a stage (16) of drying the precipitate obtained. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION We claim: 1.
Process for producing and extracting polysaccharides from a culture of the microalga porphyridium cruentum comprising the steps of concentrating pericellular and exocellular polysaccharides produced by the microalga, heating the microalga to a temperature in the range of from 60.
degree.
to 100.
degree.
C.
, separating solid and liquid phases present for recycling microalga in the solid phase without a prior basification or neutralization step for recovery of intracellular polysaccharides, precipitating the polysaccharides present in the liquid phase, and drying the resulting precipitate.
2.
Process according to claim 1, including the step of pressing the precipitate prior to drying the precipitate.
3.
Process according to claim 2, where the separating step includes centrifuging the solid and liquid phases at between 5,000 and 40,000 g.
4.
Process according to claim 2, wherein the separating step includes vacuum filtration of the solid and liquid phases.
5.
Process according to claim 1, wherein the step of precipitating the polysaccharides includes adding alcohol to the liquid phase in an alcohol volume/solution volume ratio at most equal to 1.
6.
Process according to claim 5, wherein the alcohol volume/solution volume ratio is between 0.
5 and 1.
7.
Process according to claim 1, wherein the step of heating is performed at a temperature of about 80.
degree.
C.
8.
Process according to claim 1, wherein the step of concentrating the polysaccharides includes forming a polysaccharide-rich cream by exposing the culture to sunlight under stagnant conditions in a photoreactor and recovering said cream by skimming.
9.
Process according to claim 8, wherein the step of forming said polysaccharide-rich cream includes maintaining said culture in said photoreactor at a temperature between 10.
degree.
and 40.
degree.
C.
for 12 to 72 hours.
10.
Process according to claim 8, including the step of solubilizing said polysaccharide-rich cream prior to the precipitating step.
11.
Process according to claim 8, wherein said photoreactor comprises a flat tank having a surface/volume ratio at least equal to 10 and a thickness at least equal to 10 cm
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