METHOD FOR PRODUCING OF CHITINOUS SORBENT Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: food-processing industry and biotechnology. SUBSTANCE: method involves grinding chitin-containing raw material, such as crusts of crustaceous, mushroom biomass etc, with following electrochemical processing together with electrolytic solution in cathode chamber of electrolyzer; heating and separating end product; before electrochemical processing, mixing raw material with preliminarily prepared cathodic solution; heating resultant mixture and separating solid fraction, i.e., chitinous semi- finished product. EFFECT: simplified production and increased sorptive capacity of chitinous sorbent. 4 cl, 3 ex