What is it about?
Starch industry generates effluents containing residual starch. To clean the effluent with the purpose to reuse the water and recover the starch by membrane separation is an alternative technology.
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Why is it important?
Effluents containing organic materials becomes an environmental issue due to unpleasant odors and proliferation of bacterial contamination. Then, it can be turned into a health risk.
Perspectives
The findings of this project showed that any starch processing industry could apply this method for cleaning wastewater. Using low trans-membrane pressure combined with a reasonable membrane area, helps to faster the process, because there is a lower clogging effect then the membrane permeability is kept stable.
Cirilo Nolasco-Hipolito
Universidad del Papaloapan
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This page is a summary of: Separation of sago starch from model suspensions by tangential flow filtration, Chemical Engineering Communications, December 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00986445.2018.1544897.
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