Rhone-Poulenc Industries

Rhone-Poulenc Specialites Chimiques

Bernard Mirabel

Francois Meiller

Claude Rollin

Raoul Hess

A phase contactor is provided with guide means along the path of flow of the vertically descending current of first gaseous phase established therein, but upstream of the zone of restricted flow passage, the guide means being adapted to adjust the flow of the first gaseous phase and to retard/prevent the deposition of objectionable encrusting solids within the phase contactor.

Process and apparatus for intimate contacting of a plurality of

Process for purifying beet juice by contacting the juice to be purified with at least two ion exchangers formed of a porous mineral support covered with a film of cross-linked polymer containing or bearing quaternary ammonium salt groups for at least one of the ion exchangers and sulfone groups for at least one of the other ion exchangers.

Ion exchange purification of sugar beet juice

Aqueous solutions of anthocyans are purified by contacting same with a particular, metallic oxide adsorbent, said adsorbent being coated with a thin film of a styrene polymer, and thence by separating the adsorbent and treating it with an eluant. The eluate and the dry, powdery anthocyans which can be obtained therefrom are useful red, blue and violet industrial colorants, especially food colorants.

Purification of anthocyan solutions

Enzyme-support complexes in which the enzymes are bound by covalent bonding to at least one reactive function of organic groups grafted to mineral supports by at least one ester bond. The complexes are obtained by reacting an insoluble inorganic support having hydroxyl groups with a compound formed of an organic group having at least one alcohol or phenol function and at least one reactive function, to which the enzyme is then bonded.

Enzyme-support complexes

Process for extracting proteins from milk which consists first of extracting the proteins, other than casein, by putting skimmed milk in contact with at least one anion exchanger resin and with silica, fixation of the proteins, then elution and finally separating the casein remaining in solution from the lactose and the mineral salts. This process is used in the dairy industries to prepare proteins usable in the food industry, the dietetic products industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the animal care products industry.

Process for extracting proteins from milk using silica and anion

Aminoacylase is absorbed on a porous inorganic support that has been coated with a film of cross-linked polymer containing tertiary amine or quaternary ammonium salt groups to provide support-aminoacylase complexes for use in the separation of racemic acetylamino-acids.

Support-aminoacylase complexes

A method of separating proteins by ion exchange comprising putting a solution of proteins into contact with an ion exchange resin consisting of a porous inorganic carrier coated with a cross-linked polymer containing or carrying anion exchanging groups -- tertiary amines or salts of quaternary ammonium -- or cation exchanging groups and application of the process to the food, pharmaceutical and veterinary field.

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Bernard Mirabel