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US 5,330,913 AGranted
Method of disrupting the chlorella cell wall by cell rupture
OwnerHideo Nakayamainventor
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Abstract
The CHLORELLA cell wall is disrupted by forming partially high- and low-pressure portions at high density in an aqueous suspension of CHLORELLA cells, instantaneously shifting the CHLORELLA cells in the aqueous suspension from a high-pressure state to a low-pressure state by interaction of the movement, dissipation and growth of these high- and low-pressure portions and the flowing of the aqueous suspension, and rupturing the CHLORELLA cells by their rapid expansion upon the shift.
Claims1
A method for disrupting CHLORELLA cell walls by cell rupture comprising:
- (a) placing rigid spheres having a diameter of about 500 to about 800 .mu.m in a cylindrical tight-sealable container having a notched impeller blade therein to a volume filling from 80 to 85% of the capacity of the tight-sealable container;
- wherein 70 to 80% of said spheres have diameters of about 500 .mu.m and a remainder of said spheres have a diameter of about 800 .mu.m;
- said notched impeller blade has a diameter of 80 to 90% of an inside diameter of said cylindrical tight-sealable container;
- said notched impeller blade has a thickness of about 15% to about 25% of an inside length of said tight-sealable container;
- (b) adding an aqueous suspension of not more than 30% by dry weight CHLORELLA cells to the tight-sealable container in an amount substantially filling the remainder of the capacity of said tight-sealable container;
- (c) sealing said tight-sealable container;
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- (d) rotating said notched impeller blade at a peripheral speed of 10 to 20 m/s.
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