Impact of Dextranase on Sugar Manufacturing and its Kinetic on the Molecular Weights of Remaining Dextran

Sugar Tech

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-93

  Bashari, Mohanad ^a,b   Tounkara, Fatonmata ^a   Abdelhai, Mandour H ^a   Lagnika, Camel ^a   Xu, Xueming ^a   Jin, Zhengyu ^a  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Cane sugar manufacturing; Dextran; Dextranase; Enzymatic treatment; Intrinsic viscosity; Molecular weights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872324443     PISSN: 09721525     EISSN: 09740740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12355-012-0195-4     Document Type: Article

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