Immobilization of Alcohol Dehydrogenase in membrane: Fouling mechanism at different enzyme concentration

Abstract

Fouling induced enzyme immobilization on polymer membrane with controlled variables can retain enzyme stability and performance. In this study, the effect of enzyme concentration towards the fouling-induced enzyme immobilization was investigated. Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) was used as model enzyme to be immobilized on poly(ether) sulfone (PES) membrane at different concentration (0.05, 0.10 and 0.20 g/L). The transmembrane pressure and pH were fixed at 2 bar and pH 7 respectively during the process takes place. The result shows that higher enzyme concentration gives higher loading efficiency with 83.95%. Hermia's model predicted that standard and intermediate blocking dominating the fouling mechanism at all enzyme concentration tested.