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Pilot-scale Chitin Extraction From Shrimp Shell Waste by Deproteination and Decalcification With Bacterial Enrichment Cultures

Pilot-scale Chitin Extraction From Shrimp Shell Waste by Deproteination and Decalcification With Bacterial Enrichment Cultures

Mini Bajaj, Andrea Freiberg, Josef Winter, Youmei Xu, Claudia Gallert

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2015 Nov;99(22):9835-46.

PMID: 26227412

Abstract:

Extraction of chitin from mechanically pre-purified shrimp shells can be achieved by successive NaOH/HCl treatment, protease/HCl treatment or by environmentally friendly fermentation with proteolytic/lactic acid bacteria (LAB). For the last mentioned alternative, scale-up of shrimp shell chitin purification was investigated in 0.25 L (F1), 10 L (F2), and 300 L (F3) fermenters using an anaerobic, chitinase-deficient, proteolytic enrichment culture from ground meat for deproteination and a mixed culture of LAB from bio-yoghurt for decalcification. Protein removal in F1, F2, and F3 proceeded in parallel within 40 h at an efficiency of 89-91 %. Between 85 and 90 % of the calcit was removed from the shells by LAB in another 40 h in F1, F2, and F3. After deproteination of shrimp shells in F3, spent fermentation liquor was re-used for a next batch of 30-kg shrimp shells in F4 (300 L) which eliminated 85.5 % protein. The purity of the resulting chitin was comparable in F1, F2, F3, and F4. Viscosities of chitosan, obtained after chitin deacetylation and of chitin, prepared biologically or chemically in the laboratory, were much higher than those of commercially available chitin and chitosan.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP1398614	Chitin from shrimp shells		1398-61-4	Price

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