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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 1984
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jih-Han Hsieh, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Celanese Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12N / ; C12M / ; C12M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435136 ; 435142 ; 435189 ; 435190 ; 435245 ; 435248 ; 435249 ; 435253 ; 435289 ; 435291 ; 435311 ; 435813 ; 435877 ;
Abstract
This invention provides a continuous bioconversion process in which a cross-flow membrane filtration zone is employed to recover a whole cell-containing retentate stream and a cell-free bioconversion product-containing permeate stream. The retentate stream is recycled to the fermentation zone. In a specific embodiment, toluene is bio-oxidized to muconic acid with a microorganism such as Pseudomonas putida Biotype A strain ATCC 31,916. The muconic acid is recovered as a precipitate from the cell-free permeate fermentation broth, and the fermentation broth is recycled in the process.