Penicillin V and/or G were extracted from fermentation broth by Amberlite LA-2 in n-butylacetate at pH 5 in a laboratory centrifugal extractor, Type SA 01 of Westfalia, up to an overall phase throughput rate of 30 L/h, in a bench-scale four-stage extraction system, consisting of Type TA 1 of Westfalia, up to an overall phase throughput rate of 110 L/h, and in a pilot-plant three-stage extraction unit, consisting of Type TA 7 extractors of Westfalia, up to a phase throughput rate of 990 L/h with very high degrees of extraction (up to 99%). The reextraction from the ion-pair complex, which contained organic solvent, was performed by phosphate, borate, or carbonate buffer at pH 7.5-8.5 in all three extractor systems with degrees of extraction up to 98%, but at considerably lower overall phase throughput rates than those of the extraction, since no satisfactory phase separation is possible at higher throughput rates.
Penicillin was recovered from mycel-containing fermentation broth by direct reactive extraction into a counter-current extraction decanter, Type CA 226-290 of the Westfalia Separator Co., at room temperature via steady state operation. Penicillin concentrations in the feed varied from 3 to 41 g L(-1), Amberlite LA-2 carrier concentrations from 7 to 20 g L(-1)and/or DITDA carrier concentrations from 7.2 to 84 g L(-1), the LA-2-to-penicillin mole concentration ratio from 4 to 6.4, and/or the DITDA-to-penicillin mole concentration ratio was maintained at 2. The throughputs of the fermentation broth (520 to 880 L h(-1)) of the solvent phase (200 to 860 L h(-1)) and the over all throughput (800 to 1750 L h(-1)) were high. Extraction degrees of 72 to 96% were achieved between pH 4.6 and 5.1. Without carriers in the same pH range, extraction degrees of only 17 to 19% were attained. By reducing the pH to 2.3 and in the absence of carriers, the degree of extraction was increased to 61%. However, during the extraction, 6.5% of the penicillin decomposed. At these high throughputs, the steady state was attained within 1 to 4 min. Through the mechanical stress, the length of the hyphae was reduced and the protein content of the broth was increased by 50 to 100%. However, this protein content had no appreciable influence on the phase separation.
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