235 results about "Aqueous two-phase system" patented technology

The invention relates to an aqueous two-phase separation method for total flavonoids, saponins and polysaccharides in astragalus. The method comprises the following steps of smashing an astragalus medicinal material; adding a solvent and performing solid-liquid extraction; filtering and removing impurities to obtain crude extract of the total flavonoids and the saponins of the astragalus; taking and concentrating the crude extract of the astragalus; adding an aqueous two-phase system formed by absolute ethyl alcohol/dipotassium hydrogen phosphate, adding water to make the total amount of the system be a constant value; mixing uniformly and standing, wherein the aqueous two-phase system is divided into an upper phase and a lower phase; taking an ethanol phase which contains a large amount of total flavonoids and saponins of the astragalus out; and concentrating the ethanol phase under a reduced pressure to obtain the extract of the total flavonoids of the astragalus. The method has the beneficial effects that the extraction rate of the total flavonoids and the total saponins of the astragalus; simultaneously the total flavonoids and the total saponins can be separated from the polysaccharides of the astragalus in the crude extract; the used solvent is low in toxicity, favorable to environment friendliness and low in cost; the inactivation or the denaturation of the flavonoids and the saponins of the astragalus cannot be caused; the phase separation time is short; the interfacial tension is low; and residual organic solvent does not exist.

The invention belongs to a liquid-liquid-liquid three-phase multi-stage continuous extraction device, and particularly relates to a mixer settler for three-phase extraction, which can extract the target component in one step and realizes high-level separation in a multi-component complex system. The mixer settler for three-phase extraction comprises a first-level mixer settler, a second-level mixer settler and a third-level mixer settler which have the same structure; and every mixer settler comprises a three-phase mixing chamber, a clarifying chamber, an intermediate-low phase mixing chamber, and the like. As an aqueous two-phase system, an intermediate phase and a salt-rich low phase rich in polymer are used as one phase under the condition of stirring to transfer mass during counterflow with the organic phase so that the problem of three-phase flow in the three-phase extraction process is solved and the multi-stage continuous extraction can be carried out. Under the circumference that the one-stage extraction separating effect is unsatisfactory in the multi-component complex system, the mixer settler for three-phase extraction can realize three-stage reverse flow continuous extraction and high-level multi-component separation according to the components. The invention successfully solves the problem of three-phase flow in the three-phase extraction process.

A process for the purification or fractionation of aqueous soluble polymers using an aqueous two-phase system is described. The concentrations of the polymer to be fractionated and of an aqueous soluble salt, and the temperature of the aqueous fractionation medium are adjusted so that two phases form, the lower molecular weight polymer molecules partition into the high salt concentration phase, and the higher molecular weight polymer molecules partition into the low salt concentration phase. The resulting high molecular weight polymers are characterized by a higher average molecular weight and a narrower molecular weight distribution and decreased unsaturation than the unfractionated polymers. After being subjected to the fractionation process, polyol polymers that form hydrogels in aqueous solution exhibited higher viscosities and a liquid to gel transition over a narrower temperature range than the unfractionated polyol polymers.

The invention discloses a method for extracting Olea europaea leaf polyphenol by an aqueous two phase system. The method comprises the following steps of adding dried and crushed Olea europaea leaves into the aqueous two phase system containing hydrophilic low molecules organic solvent and inorganic salt solution, mixing, performing ultrasonic extraction, and extracting the Olea europaea leaf polyphenol to an upper phase; performing enrichment on the upper phase with macroporous resin, eluting the upper phase with the organic solvent, and concentrating and drying eluant to obtain the Olea europaea leaf polyphenol; the recovery rate of the Olea europaea leaf polyphenol is more than 90 percent, and the purity of the Olea europaea leaf polyphenol is more than 80 percent. The aqueous two phase extraction technique, which is a new isolation technique, is applied to isolation and extraction of the Olea europaea leaf polyphenol by combing with the traditional ultrasonic-assisted organic solvent extraction technique, therefore the method has the advantages that the product yield is high, the product purity is high, extraction is rapid, the condition is mild, equipment is simple, the Olea europaea leaf polyphenol is easy to amplify, and the like.

The invention relates to a method for extracting and separating vanadium from chromium by using liquid-liquid-liquid three-phase system, which comprises the following steps of: adding phase forming salt and a polymer in vanadium and chromium solution and forming an aqueous two-phase system after the phase forming salt and the polymer are dissolved; and then adding an organic phase in the formed aqueous two-phase system, vibrating and carrying out phase separation to obtain the three-phase system. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that: (1) the separation coefficient of vanadium from chromium is large, so that the effective separation of vanadium from chromium can be realized in one step; (2) the utilization rate of vanadium and chromium is high, so that the resource waste is effectively reduced; (3) the method is good in physical phenomenon, short in process flow, simple and convenient in operation, low in cost, less in energy consumption and good in control, and as long as the effective separation of vanadium from the chromium can be realized, the production process for further recovering vanadium and chromium is mature.

The invention relates to a microwave-assisted aqueous two-phase extraction method for separating kudzu root total flavone, which comprises the following steps: 1) preparation of an aqueous two-phase system: taking an inorganic salt, adding water to dissolve the inorganic salt, and adding an organic solvent to obtain a aqueous two-phase extractant; and 2) microwave-assisted aqueous two-phase extraction: adding kudzu root powder into the aqueous two-phase extractant obtained in the step 1), carrying out microwave-assisted extraction, and carrying out vacuum filtration to obtain an obvious phase-separated kudzu root flavone extracting solution. Compared with the prior art, the method provided by the invention has the following advantages: (1) the method is simple to operate and does not need to wait for phase separation; 2) the process is integrated; 3) the extraction process is quick and efficient; 4) the extraction solvent is low in toxicity; 5) the interfacial tension is small, thereby being beneficial to mass transfer between the two phases; 6) abundant impurities can be removed along with solid matters, thereby being beneficial to purifying the sample; and 7) the extraction method does not have obvious scale-up effect, can easily implement technique amplification and continuous operation, and can be directly connected with the subsequent purification procedure without special treatment.

The invention relates to an aqueous two-phase extraction method for total flavones in kudzu root. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) solid-liquid leaching: smashing a kudzu root medicinal material, adding a leaching agent, heating, performing reflux extraction, and combining the filtrate to obtain a kudzu root crude extract; (2) aqueous two-phase extraction: concentrating the kudzu root crude extract obtained in the step (1), adding into an aqueous two-phase system formed by absolute ethanol/monopotassium phosphate, adding water, mixing uniformly, and standing to separate into an upper phase and a lower phase; and (3) distilling under reduced pressure, and drying in vacuum to obtain a kudzu root total flavone extract. The invention has the advantages: (1) phase separating israpid, and the recovery rate is high; (2) process integration is performed, the aim of purifying through aqueous two-phase extraction is fulfilled, and a material liquid is concentrated; (3) the use of n-butyl alcohol serving as a toxic solvent is avoided; (4) the boundary tension is small, and mass transfer between two phases is facilitated; (5) purification of a sample is facilitated; and (6) process amplification and continuous operation are easy, and a subsequent purification process can be directly connected without special treatment.

The invention relates to a method for separating and purifying a beet red pigment, in particular to a method for purifying a crude extract of the beet red pigment by a two aqueous phase extraction method. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: soaking the beet tuberous roots with acidic aqueous solution for extracting the beet red pigment and obtaining a pigment crude extract; then adjusting the pH; adding polyethylene glycol and ammonium sulfate to form a two aqueous phase system; fully mixing and extracting the mixture; forming two phases after standing, wherein the beet red pigment enters a top phase of the polyethylene glycol, and saccharide impurities enter a bottom phase of the ammonium sulfate; separating the beet red pigment from the polyethylene glycol in the top phase by using an ultrafiltration membrane method; concentrating the beet red pigment by using inverse penetration or nanofiltration membranes; then concentrating the beet red pigment in vacuum until the solid content of the beet red pigment is over 20 percent; and finally obtaining a beet red pigment product by using a spray drying method.

The invention relates to a ginger oil resin microcapsule and a preparation method thereof. Cyclodextrin is directly combined with functional components of ginger such as gingerol and the like in ginger juice (aqueous solution) to be stewed and refrigerated for split phase to realize separation. The method extracts ginger oil resin from ginger directly by an aqueous two-phase system and prepares the ginger oil resin microcapsule by a microcapsule technology at the same time, two steps of the technical process are integrated in one technology, so that the technology is simple; and at the same time, the extraction separation technical process is carried out in water phase under gentle condition, thereby being good for the comprehensive utilization of ginger starch and ginger dietary fiber. The ginger oil resin microcapsule has stable performance under dry state and has the advantages of good fluidity and crystallinity, good dispersibility, easy absorption, slow release of core material, good controlled release effect, etc.

The invention relates to a spirulina phatensis polysaccharide and an extraction method thereof. The extraction method comprises the following steps: after multigelation and wall breaking of a spirulina phatensis powder suspension, centrifuging to obtain a cell lysate 1 and cell debris; adding ammonium sulfate in the cell lysate 1 until the saturation is 50%, after salting-out precipitation, centrifuging to remove phycobiliprotein to obtain a supernatant, and evenly mixing the supernatant and the cell debris to obtain a cell lysate 2; obtaining a spirulina phatensis polysaccharide crude extract by using a hot water extraction method; adding the crude extract to an ethanol/ammonium sulfate aqueous two-phase system, and extracting to obtain a bottom-phase solution of spirulina phatensis polysaccharide with higher purity; after the bottom-phase solution is desalted by dialysis, eluting by using a Sephadex G-150 chromatographic column and a DEAE Sephadex A-50 anion exchange column to obtain a pure spirulina phatensis polysaccharide solution; and freeze-drying, thereby obtaining a pure spirulina phatensis polysaccharide finished product. The extraction method can be used for avoiding the traditional complicated protein removal operation steps, has low cost, high yield, and high purity and activity of polysaccharide, and is suitable for intermittent and large-scale production and processing.

The invention provides a method for extracting phenylethanoid glycoside in herba cistanche by using a salt-induced deep-eutectic solvent on the one hand. According to the method, the phenylethanoid glycoside in the herba cistanche is extracted by using a water solution of the deep-eutectic solvent to extract herba cistanche powder, and adding phosphate into extracting liquid to prepare an aqueous two-phase system. According to the method, conditions of the extraction environment are mild, and phase separation time is short; the yield of the phenylethanoid glycoside in the herba cistanche can reach up to 20%.

The invention relates to the technical field of separation and purification of natural products, in particular to a method for separating and purifying protein through an aqueous-two-phase system. Themethod comprises the following steps of A, protein extraction through the aqueous-two-phase system, wherein a low-eutectic solvent and an inorganic salt aqueous solution containing the protein are uniformly mixed, then centrifugation is conducted to obtain a liquid-liquid two-phase system, and then a hypophase extraction liquid is collected; B, protein reextraction, wherein the hypophase extraction liquid in step A is diluted with water and then centrifuged to obtain a liquid-solid two-phase system; C, preparation of a pure product of the protein, wherein a solid phase in step B is dissolvedwith water, and freeze drying is conducted after ultrafiltration centrifugation to obtain the pure product of the protein, wherein in step A, the low-eutectic solvent is prepared from quaternary ammonium salt and hexafluoroisopropanol. According to the method, a DES-salt aqueous-two-phase system based on HFIP is adopted, the DES phase is easy to collect, the extraction rate and reextraction rate on the protein are high, the protein purity is high, and the structure and activity of the protein are both maintained; the operation is simple.

The invention discloses a method of extracting phycocyanin from an ionic liquid aqueous two-phase system and particularly relates to a method of extracting phycocyanin from spiral seaweeds. The method comprises the following steps of: mechanically crushing spiral seaweed materials, adding into proper amount of dipotassium phosphate aqueous liquor and soaking, placing into an ultrasonic crusher to carry out wall-breaking treatment on spiral seaweed cells; extracting crude extracting liquor of spiral seaweed phycocyanin by utilizing the ionic liquid aqueous two-phase system formed by ionic liquid, dipotassium phosphate and water; and adopting column chromatography for separating and purifying the ionic liquid containing the phycocyanin to obtain the phycocyanin fine powder.

The invention discloses a microwave-assisted aqueous two-phase/reversed micelles extraction method of Sophora flavescens alkaloids. The method comprises the steps of extracting Radix Sophorae Flavescentis or Radix Sophorae Tonkinensis by use of microwave-assisted ethanol-ammonium sulfate aqueous two-phase system, in which Sophora flavescens alkaloids are partitioned between the two aqueous phases and extracted into the upper phase to complete primary purification; selectively extracting Sophora flavescens alkaloids by use of SDBS (sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate)/isooctane/n-octanol reversed micelles system, to obtain Sophora flavescens alkaloids crude product with low impurity content; and performing separation and purification to obtain matrine, oxymatrine and sophoridine. The method combines reversed micelles extraction, microwave-assisted extraction and aqueous two-phase extraction technologies, to realize advantage complementation, simple method, high speed and efficiency, no pollution, low requirements for facilities, easy continuous production and scale-up. The extracted Sophora flavescens alkaloids have purity above 90.92% and yield up to 55.38 mg/g. The separated and purified matrine, oxymatrine and sophoridine have high purity above 94% and little organic solvent residue.

The invention relates to a multifunctional highly efficient counter current chromatograph, which consists of a disc type counter current chromatographic separation column, a counterweight body, a planet carrier, a cylinder rotating axis, a planet wheel, a center wheel, a central revolution axis, an electrical motor, a transmission device, a speed control device and an insulated chassis. The disc type counter current chromatographic separation column comprises at least a or a plurality of discs provided with designing slots, clapboards at two sides of each disc, the cylinder rotating axis, an upper flange and a lower flange; the cylinder rotating axis is hollow and passes through the center of the upper flange, the lower flange, the discs and the clapboards; the inner edge and the outer edge of the upper flange, the lower flange, the discs and the clapboards are provided with a plurality of bolt pieces that fix the upper flange, the lower flange, the discs and the clapboards together. The advantages of the invention lie in that: the fixed phase retention value of a two-phase system comprising an organic phase is further promoted and highly efficient and fast separation of micromolecular substances is realized in high flowing speed. Meanwhile, the retention rate of an aqueous two-phase system is remarkably prompted, thus being applicable for the separation of biomacromolecule.

The invention relates to an aqueous two-phase system extraction method for ganodenic acid and ganoderma lucidum polysaccharide. The method particularly comprises the following steps of: (1) pulverizing fresh or dry ganoderma lucidum fruiting bodies; (2) establishing an ethanol/ammonium sulfate aqueous two-phase system; (3) performing extraction separation: adding ganoderma lucidum powder into the ethanol/ammonium sulfate aqueous two-phase system, shaking up the mixture by vibration or uniformly mixing the mixture by ultrasonic sound, and standing the mixture for phase splitting or centrifugally splitting the phase to obtain a top phase and a bottom phase; (4) concentrating the top phase under reduced pressure and freeze-drying the top phase to obtain the ganodenic acid; and (5) dialyzing the bottom phase to obtain permeate and intercept fluid, performing alcohol precipitation on the intercept fluid with 80 percent ethanol and centrifuging to obtain a precipitate and supernatant, and free-drying the precipitate to obtain the ganoderma lucidum polysaccharide. The method has the advantages of simple process, low equipment requirement, low cost, no pollution, suitability for batch production and capability of realizing synchronous extraction of the ganodenic acid and the ganoderma lucidum polysaccharide.

The invention discloses a method for measuring residual erythromycin in an environment by using a hydrophilic ionic-liquid aqueous two-phase system. The method comprises the following steps of: forming the ionic-liquid aqueous two-phase system by using 1.5 grams of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([Bmim]BF4) and 11 grams of NaH2PO4, at least extracting the solution for 2 hours once by using the extracting system, standing the solution after extraction, measuring the concentration of the residual erythromycin in the water phase after the split phases are clear, and calculating the extraction rate of the erythromycin by using the erythromycin content of the water phase before and after the extraction. According to the method, the extraction rate of the erythromycin can reach 99.31 percent. The method has the characteristics of wide linear range, low detection limit, small relative standard deviation and high measuring yield of a sample. The method can meet the national detection requirement for the residual erythromycin, is simpler to operate, and is suitable for quantitative analysis of residual trace erythromycin in food.

Provided is multi-phase systems that may be used to prepare a three-dimension aggregate of cells referred to as a cellular spheroid. The multi-phase system includes a droplet of an aqueous polymer phase within an immersion aqueous polymer phase. The droplet of the droplet aqueous polymer phase contains a three-dimensional aggregate of cells (cellular spheroid). Types of cells that may be used in the multi-phases system include stem cells and cancer cells. The cellular spheroids with the multi-phase system may be used to monitor cell growth in three-dimensional systems, or screen drugs in a three-dimension aggregate of cells.

The invention discloses a method for rapidly detecting contents of lemon yellow and sunset yellow in a food. The method comprises the following steps of: preparing a standard solution of the lemon yellow and the sunset yellow; measuring the peak area of the standard solution of the pigments by using high performance liquid chromatography, and drawing a standard curve to obtain an equation of linear regression; filtering a liquid food sample or solid food sample solution, extracting by using an ionic liquid aqueous two-phase system composed of 1-butyl-3-methylimidzaole bromine salt and K2HPO4, and directly carrying out high performance liquid chromatography analysis on an ionic liquid after phase splitting; and respectively calculating the contents of the lemon yellow and the sunset yellow in the food according to the equation of linear regression. The method disclosed by the invention is simple in operation, free of a great deal of volatile solvents, short in separation time, good in ionic liquid phase mobility and capable of inter-dissolving with water or methanol and directly injecting for chromatography analysis. By using the method, the rapid, simple, convenient, environment-friendly, economic, qualitative and quantitative measurement can be provided for quality control departments and production enterprises.

A means and method for preparing vesicles and freestanding two-dimensional assemblies using aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) is described. The surface tension of the ATPS is sufficient to support the assembly of various types of particles, and provide the advantage of being biocompatible with DNA and other types of biological molecules that may be used in the assembly. Vesicles are formed by mixing chemically dissimilar compounds in appropriate concentrations and at a temperature sufficient to form a monophasic mixture. This mixture is then heated above the temperature at which the polymer mixture is monophasic, added to a lipid film, and allowed to hydrate at this elevated temperature.