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US 8,575,313 B2Granted
Process for extracting keratin
AssigneeUniversiti Malaysia Pahang
InventorsArun Gupta, Ramanan Perumal
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for extracting keratin from poultry feather, and provides a quicker process thus allowing large-scale productions of the keratin production to be carried out in timely manner thus increasing the productivity and efficiency of such process.
Claims7
A method for extracting keratin from poultry feathers comprising the following steps:
- (a) dissolving the feathers in a basic solvent;
- (b) filtering the resultant composition from step (a) to separate and remove any solid particles and collecting the supernatant liquid;
- (c) adding ammonium sulphate to the supernatant liquid to precipitate the keratin;
- and (d) separating the precipitated keratin;
- and wherein the feathers are dissolved in KCN prepared together with NaOH.
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