Xyrofin Oy

Danisco Sweeteners Oy

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Heikki O Heikkila

Mirja Lindroos

Hannu A Paananen

Hannu Koivikko

Olli-Pekka Eroma

Jarmo Kuisma

Heikki Heikkil&auml;

Matti Tylli

Johanna Nygren

Kaj-Erik Monten

Hannele Nikander

Marianne Nyström

Mika Manttäri

The invention relates to a separation process of fractionating a solution comprising betaine and sucrose by subjecting said solution to chromatographic fractionation and nanofiltration and recovering a fraction enriched in betaine and optionally a fraction enriched in sucrose. The solution to be fractionated in accordance with the present invention is typically a sugar beet-derived solution, for instance a molasses solution.

Process for recovering betaine

The invention relates to a process of separating compounds with a small molar mass from compounds having a molar mass less than 1.9 times that of the compounds with a small molar mass using nanofiltration. The compounds with a small molar mass have a typical molar mass less than 250 g/mol. In one embodiment of the invention, pentose sugars are separated from hexose sugars. The invention can be applied to the recovery of xylose from spent liquors and to the recovery of betaine from sugar beet pulp extracts, for example.

Separation process

The present invention relates to a method of producing xylose by chromatographic separation of the xylose from a sulphite cooking liquor containing for example xylose and xylonic acid. The xylose yield of the separation is affected by the xylonic acid and xylose content in the cooking liquor used in the separation and the amount of base cation used in the sulphite cooking.

Method of producing xylose

The invention relates to a method for producing xylitol from a material containing xylose and xylonic acid. According to the method, xylose and xylonic acid are separated from the material containing xylose and xylonic acid, whereafter the separated xylose and xylonic acid are reduced to xylitol, and the xylitol is recovered.

Method for producing xylitol

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