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- Title
Taylor vortex-based protein crystal nucleation enhancement and growth evaluation in batchwise and slug flow crystallizers.
- Authors
Tao, Tiantian; Li, Beibei; Jia, Shengzhe; Chen, Mingyang; Gao, Zhenguo; Gong, Junbo
- Abstract
The utilisation of nucleation seeds, coupling nucleation and growth during crystallization and realistic continuum are currently relatively robust, reliable and scalable methods for protein crystallization optimization. Here, we design a segmented crystallization method, in which combines the characteristics of the Taylor vortex enhanced lysozyme nucleation stage. Different crystallizer are used for the growth segment so that the nucleation segment and the growth segment are organically combined during lysozyme crystallization. During the crystal growth stage, the crystallization properties of the Couette-Taylor (CT) crystallizer, mixing Tank (MT) crystallizer and tubular crystallizer were evaluated. The experimental results emphasize the importance of shear rate, temperature, and fluid velocity in the design of segment crystallization methods to obtain products with complete crystal morphology and uniform size distribution. This strategy successfully expanded the lysozyme crystallization from the original 10 mL scale to 200 mL, realized the continuous process, and providing a promising strategy for the design and operation of continuous SFC to produce high value protein crystals in the future. [Display omitted] • Couette-Taylor crystallizer can produce high quality crystals with uniform crystal size. • The decoupling of nucleation and growth can avoid crystal gragmentation. • Slug flow mode can realize the continuous crystallization process.
- Subjects
DISCONTINUOUS precipitation; CRYSTALLOIDS (Botany); TAYLOR vortices; CRYSTAL growth; CRYSTAL morphology
- Publication
Chemical Engineering Research & Design: Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Part A, 2023, Vol 193, p555
- ISSN
0263-8762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.cherd.2023.03.044