Organic Acids
Organic acids
production
Improve the production process of your factory.
Organic acids can be produced by fermentation (fungi or bacteria). Depending on the reaction conditions, the organic acid will be in acid or salt form, influencing the downstream process.
Applexion has developed optimized purification solutions for organic acids, based on combination of cost effective and as much as possible sustainable technologies. Our objective is to provide the optimum method of purification for downstream processing.
Citric acid
The production of citric acid is mostly based on a fermentation process from different sources of carbohydrates (molasses or starch based media). Once the fermentation process achieved, the citric acid is extracted and purified to match with quality standards, whether food, chemical or pharmaceutical.
The gypsum free separation, developed and patented by Applexion™, offers a very efficient and environmentally-friendly alternative for the purification of organic acids using Applexion™ SC technology and the principle of acid retardation.
This process can be adapted to any organic acid produced under low pH conditions.
- Less chemical consumption:
– No CaCO3 required with very little use of H2SO4.
– Reduced need for activated carbon and ion exchange regeneration chemicals.
- Less waste:
– No gypsum waste.
– Reduced liquid waste.
- Better yield:
– 97% using Applexion™ SC for broth.
– 98.5% using Applexion™ SC for mother liquor.
Lactic acid
Lactic acid can be separated from fermentation broth by several purification techniques. Optimizing lactic acid production methods can lead to advancements in various fields, from food production to biotechnology and healthcare.
We know that downstream process of lactic acid can accounts for 40 to 70% of the production cost (source Kumar and all, Bioresource technology, 2020). That’s why we use years of R&D and industrial expertise to develop adapted purification processes insisting on:
- Less chemical consumption.
- CAPEX/OPEX optimization.
- Reduced development time.
- Minimized scale up risks.
Biomass sugar
Biomass sugar
production
Improve your base production process.
Cellulosic sugars can be extracted from various sources such as wheat straw, paper pulp processes, corn stover, cane bagasse, hardwood or softwood. These sugars can be used as carbon sources for fermentation processes or as raw materials for further transformation into building blocks.
Cellulosic sugars include:
- C5 sugar monomers : xylose, arabinose, etc.
- C6 sugar monomers: mannose, glucose, fructose, galactose, etc.
- Multiple oligosaccharides.
Whatever the nature of the feedstock and the treatment applied, a purification step as a downstream treatment is mandatory to obtain purified sugars. This purification requires high final purity, effective elimination of salts and organic acids but also color removal. As the top priority quality, the downstream process has to present a low environmental footprint, be continuous and productive, as well as robust and cost efficient. Because of feed nature, the process has to be able to handle feed variation.
We propose our chromatography technology to go until purified sugars. Based on historical knowledge and results of years of biomass experience and development we use our chromatography technology as the earth of the purification process. Chromatography step is powerful with an appropriate pretreatment step. It permit to protect chromatography step from specific risks and to fully optimized the chromatography potential.
Working with Applexion:
- Widest experience in the industry.
- Analytical capacities force.
- Project definition, development and execution secured.
- Partners networks to efficiency combine multi-technology process line.
