Tailored ethylenediamine-functionalized graphene oxide membrane on kaolin hollow fibers for pectin concentration.

Autor: Magalhães FS; Faculdade de Engenharia Química, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Av. João Naves de Ávila, 2121, 38400-902 Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Ribeiro SRFL; Faculdade de Engenharia Química, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Av. João Naves de Ávila, 2121, 38400-902 Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Dos Santos SS; Faculdade de Engenharia Química, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Av. João Naves de Ávila, 2121, 38400-902 Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Boffito DC; Department of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, C.P. 6079, Succ., CV Montréal, H3C 3A7, Québec, Canada., Cardoso VL; Faculdade de Engenharia Química, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Av. João Naves de Ávila, 2121, 38400-902 Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Reis MHM; Faculdade de Engenharia Química, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Av. João Naves de Ávila, 2121, 38400-902 Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address: miria@ufu.br.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of biological macromolecules [Int J Biol Macromol] 2024 Jan; Vol. 254 (Pt 3), pp. 127896. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 04.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127896
Abstrakt: Pectin is a valuable product that can be extracted from waste fruit peels. Here we propose the use of graphene oxide (GO)-based membranes for pectin concentration. The synthesized GO was functionalized with ethylenediamine (EDA) to molecularly design the GO framework. Kaolin hollow fibers with asymmetric pore distribution were used as a porous substrate for GO/EDA deposition. A GO/EDA layer with a thickness of 2.86 ± 0.24 μm was assembled on the substrate by the simple vacuum-assisted deposition method. After GO/EDA depositions, the water permeance of the pristine kaolin hollow fibers reduced from 8.46 ± 0.17 to 0.52 ± 0.03 L h -1 ·m -2 ·kPa -1 . A pectin aqueous extract from orange peels was filtered at cross-flow mode through the prepared membranes and the steady-state fluxes through pristine and GO/EDA-coated hollow fibers were 56 ± 2 and 20 ± 3 L h -1  m -2 , respectively. The GO/EDA-coated membrane presented greater pectin selectivity than the pristine hollow fiber. The GO/EDA-coated hollow fiber concentrated the galacturonic acid, phenolic, and methoxyl contents in 19.5, 17.4, and 29.2 %, respectively. Thus, filtration through the GO/EDA-based membrane is a suitable alternative for pectin concentration.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE