Bacillus circulans in a spiral wound MR
Saccharose conversion into glucose and frutose catalysed by
invertase
Cantarella et al., 1989;
Nakajima et al., 1989, 1993
Intermolecular transglycosilation of cyclodextrin with
maltooligosaccharides, glucose and sucrose by cyclodextrin
glucanotransferase
Okada et al., 1994b
Production of fructooligosaccharides by transfructosylation with β-
fructofuranosidase in a ceramic MR
Nishizawa et al., 2000
Table 6.10 Other applications
Enzyme-reaction description Reference
Investigation of acid phosphatase activity over p-nitrophenyl phosphate in a
tubular MR
Alfani et al., 1982
Hydrolysis of urea catalysed by urease in an ultrafiltration cell Gacesa et al., 1983
Study of diffusion close to membrane containing glucose oxydase Bardeletti et al.,
1985
Study of diffusion-reaction in the hydrolysis of urea catalysed by urease Yonese et al., 1990
Conversion of L-aspartate from L-fumarate by L-aspartase in a MR with
simultaneous separation using electrophoresis
Furusaki et al.,
1990
Synthesis of optically pure (R)-mandelonitrile by (R)-oxynitrilase Kragl et al., 1990a
Synthesis of N-acetylneuraminic acid by the conjugated action of epimerase
and lyase
Kragl et al., 1990b,
1990c
Investigation of penicillinase and lactate dehydrogenase activity Harrington et al.,
1992
Production of peroxycarboxylic acids and epoxides by lipase in a 2-phase MR Cuperus et al.,
1994
Degradation of phenols from model effluents by hydroxilases and oxygenases
in an ultrafiltration cell
Bodzek et al., 1994
Hydrolysis of penicillin C by penicillin acylase in a capillary membrane
reactor
Bryjak et al., 1996
Hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl acetate by lipase immobilised in colloidal liquid
aphrons in a hollow fibre reactor
Lye et al., 1996
Oxidation of indole to oxindole by chloroperoxidase Seelbach et al.,
1997
Oxidation of cephalosporin C by D-aminoacid oxidase immobilised on
Duolite A365
Alfani et al., 1998
Coupled transcription/translation using T7 RNA polymerase and E. coli
extract in hollow fibre membrane reactor
Nakano et al., 1999
Degradation of phenols from industrial effluents by phenol oxidase ina Edwards etal
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