Desalination, Vol.250, No.3, 1128-1131, 2010
Utilisation of bipolar electrodialysis for recovery of galacturonic acid
Galacturonic acid is an acidifying agent and can be utilized in the food industry. It can be recovered from the hydrolysate of various pectins by electrodialysis. In this work bipolar electrodialysis was applied to separated and concentrated galacturonic acid and finally a crystallised product was obtained. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.