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Engineering of scaleable continuous electrophoretic separations using novel high flow inverted matrix packings

Reference	SPC05181
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor John Howell
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Julian B Chaudhuri
Institution	University of Bath
Department	Chemical Engineering
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	126,236
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/12/1995
End date	01/12/1998
Duration	36 months

Abstract

Electrophoresis typically produces high quality separations but slowly. Continuous electrophoresis uses a combined convective flow and electrical field set at right angles to produce continuous streams of separated proteins. By placing a high flow inverted matrix packing in the electrophoresis cell electrohydrodynamic and thermal and concentration induced gravity driven flows will be retarded leading to flow stability under scale-up and allowing engineering design of the systems for optimal performance. Different materials will be characterised on dispersion and charge and graded charges will be used with the cell at later stages. The system will be used for separating protein mixtures such as those is milk, whey or fermentation broths.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Engineering & Biological Systems (EBS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	Separation Processes Committee (SPC) [1992-1995]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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