Comparison of different technologies for alginate beads production

Prüsse, Ulf, Bilancetti, Luca, Bučko, Marek, Bugarski, Branko, Bukowski, Jozef, Gemeiner, Peter, Lewińska, Dorota, Manojlovic, Verica, Massart, Benjamin, Nastruzzi, Claudio, Nedovic, Viktor, Poncelet, Denis, Siebenhaar, Swen, Tobler, Lucien and Tosi, Azzurra Comparison of different technologies for alginate beads production Chemical Papers, Vol.62, No. 4, 2008, 364-374

Document type: Článok z časopisu / Journal Article
Collection: Chemical papers  

Author(s) Prüsse, Ulf
Bilancetti, Luca
Bučko, Marek
Bugarski, Branko
Bukowski, Jozef
Gemeiner, Peter
Lewińska, Dorota
Manojlovic, Verica
Massart, Benjamin
Nastruzzi, Claudio
Nedovic, Viktor
Poncelet, Denis
Siebenhaar, Swen
Tobler, Lucien
Tosi, Azzurra
Title Comparison of different technologies for alginate beads production
Journal name Chemical Papers
Publication date 2008
Year available 2008
Volume number 62
Issue number 4
ISSN 0366-6352
Start page 364
End page 374
Place of publication Poland
Publisher Versita
Collection year 2008
Language english
Subject 250000 Chemical Sciences
290000 Engineering and Technology
Abstract/Summary This paper describes the results of the round robin experiment “Bead production technologies” carried out during the COST 840 action “Bioencapsulation Innovation and Technologies” within the 5th Framework Program of the European Community. In this round robin experiment, calcium alginate hydrogel beads with the diameter of (800 ± 100) μm were produced by the most common bead production technologies using 0.5–4 mass % sodium alginate solutions as starting material. Dynamic viscosity of the alginate solutions ranged from less than 50 mPa s up to more than 10000 mPa s. With the coaxial air-flow and electrostatic enhanced dropping technologies as well as with the JetCutter technology in the soft-landing mode, beads were produced from all alginate solutions, whereas the vibration technology was not capable to process the high-viscosity 3 % and 4 % alginate solutions. Spherical beads were generated by the electrostatic and the JetCutter technologies. Slightly deformed beads were obtained from high-viscosity alginate solutions using the coaxial airflow and from the 0.5 % and 2 % alginate solutions using the vibration technology. The rate of bead production using the JetCutter was about 10 times higher than with the vibration technology and more than 10000 times higher than with the coaxial air-flow and electrostatic technology.
 
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