Recovery of polyphenols from orange peel extract involving 3D printed PLA ultrafiltration membrane

P. Pini Pereira; I. Pacola Gonçalves; L.V. Arnaut Braz; Y.S. Dzyazko; C. Moser Paraiso; A. Marquetotti Salcedo Vieira; R. Bergamasco

doi:10.15407/hftp17.02.200

Authors

P. Pini Pereira State University of Maringa
I. Pacola Gonçalves State University of Maringa
L.V. Arnaut Braz State University of Maringa
Y.S. Dzyazko V.I. Vernadskii Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
C. Moser Paraiso State University of Maringa
A. Marquetotti Salcedo Vieira State University of Maringa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7467-3767
R. Bergamasco State University of Maringa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15407/hftp17.02.200

Keywords:

orange peel extract, polyphenols, 3D printing membrane, polylactic acid, ultrafiltration

Abstract

Such biologically active compounds as polyphenols are widely used in pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic industry, since they possess high antimicrobial and antioxidant activity. These substances are recovered from plant extracts. For their concentrating, baromembrane separation is desirable, since it provides no degradation of target products. In this work, ultrafiltration membrane produced from polylactic acid (PLA) using 3D printing (fused deposition modelling technique) was applied to the recovery of polyphenols from orange peel extract. Main advantage of 3D printing is a possibility to manufacture membranes of any shape and size, which are needed for customers. The particles with a size of several hundred nanometers and larger have been preliminarily removed from the extract to accelerate filtration. The effect of polyphenol concentration and pressure on the filtration process has been studied. As found, the rejection of polyphenols from the extract, which contains no large particles, reaches » 90 %, it is independent on pressure within the interval of 0.5–2.0 bar. The flux increases with pressure and reaches 1.7-3.2 L m^–2h^–1 for the most concentrated solution. In the case of pristine extract, rejection decreases with pressure. Different behavior of membrane towards extracts is explained from the point of view of concentration polarization, which results in a formation of dynamic layers, where large or small particles dominate. The transport properties of the membrane are restored after regeneration with ethanol.

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