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- Title
Environmental Assessment of Enzyme Production and Purification.
- Authors
Becker, Martin; Lütz, Stephan; Rosenthal, Katrin; Mateo, Cesar
- Abstract
The importance of bioprocesses has increased in recent decades, as they are considered to be more sustainable than chemical processes in many cases. E factors can be used to assess the sustainability of processes. However, it is noticeable that the contribution of enzyme synthesis and purification is mostly neglected. We, therefore, determined the E factors for the production and purification of 10 g enzymes. The calculated complete E factor including required waste and water is 37,835 gwaste·genzyme−1. This result demonstrates that the contribution of enzyme production and purification should not be neglected for sustainability assessment of bioprocesses.
- Subjects
CHEMICAL processes; ENZYMES; SEWAGE; FACTORS of production; BIOCHEMICAL engineering
- Publication
Molecules, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 3, p573
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules26030573