ISSN:
1432-0797
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
Abstract Precipitation of a protein by ultracentrifuge with an angle rotor was simulated by a model for sedimentation process. Assuming that the concentration of solute in an inclined ultracentrifugal tube is given by averaging the concentration in the imaginary horizontal tube, the governing equation describing the concentration in the rectangular-shaped tube with a uniform field of ultracentrifugal force for an inclined tube in an angle rotor was derived. The exact solution to this governing equation was obtained under the condition that the diffusion is absent or present. The dimensionless concentration which is reduced by the initial concentration can be expressed as the function of a dimensionless ultracentrifugal times ω 2 t in case that the diffusion is absent, and as the function of dimensionless parametersα andt *in case that the diffusion is present. From our first approximated model it is found that the precipitation of a protein by ultracentrifuge with an angle rotor proceeds more rapidly than that with a swing rotor whether diffusion is absent or present.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00589150
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