METHOD OF PECTIN PRODUCTION Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: technology of high-molecular natural compounds, in particular, pectin; may be used in production of pectin from wastes of vegetable raw materials of processing industry. SUBSTANCE: method includes washing the raw material simultaneously with its thermal treatment at 40-90 C. Hydrolysis is carried out by extracting agent with pH 1-8 or process water not in excess of 10 min in mechano-activation conditions. Then mixture is separated with water duty of 1:(4-8), dry mass is pressed and at water duty of 1:(8-30) dry mass is subjected to centrifuging. EFFECT: higher efficiency. 4 cl, 1 tbl