PECTIN PRODUCTION PROCESS Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: biotechnology.

SUBSTANCE: invention provides a pectin production process comprising mixing pectin-containing raw material with water, treating resulting mix in rotor-cavitation extractor, separating phases, and isolating pectin from liquid phase. Method is distinguished by that several in series installed rotor-cavitation extractors are used, displacement through which of pectin-containing raw material and water is effected in opposite directions and processing therein is effected at cavitation indexes increasing in each consequent rotor-cavitation extractor in water displacement direction, said cavitation indexes being found from formula: P_ki = 0.7[1+9i-1):(n-1)], where P_ki denotes cavitation index in i^th extractor, i is sequential number of extractor in downstream direction, and n is number of in series installed rotor-cavitation extractors at ratio of solid-to-liquid phases in rotor-cavitation extractors within a range from 1:7 to 1:11.

EFFECT: reduced power consumption and increased specific yield of pectin.