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Yuehai Wang1, Yongqing Yang1, Rui Wang1
1State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Chemical and Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Abstract:
Extraction of chitin from crustacean waste with acidic natural deep eutectic solvents (NADESs) is usually accompanied by degradation of chitin, which lowers the yield and molecular weight of product. Herein, this study proposed a eco-friendly and feasible route for effectively improving the yield and molecular weight of chitin by introducing N-acetyl-D-glucosamine into ternary NADESs. A high molecular weight chitin with molecular weight of 3.92 × 105 Da, purity of 90.2% and yield of 85.6% was obtained from crab shell. Compared with conventional acid/alkali and binary NADESs method, the maximum yield of chitin extracted by ChCl-G-FA2 was increased by 1.57 times and 1.39 times respectively. Molecular weight of chitin was 3.16 times that of acid/alkali method. Recycling performance evaluation revealed that the purity of chitin could still reach 80.4% after five cycles of NADESs. This study provided a eco-friendly utilization strategy for crustacean waste based on multifunctional NADESs.
