AN INVESTIGATION ON THE USEABILITY OF TRANSGLUTAMINASE ENZYME IN REVERSE LEATHER PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR CLEAN PRODUCTION
Project no. 785 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
The leather industry is known as one of the polluting industry branches due to the formation of large quantities of liquid and solid wastes. For sustainable leather production, it is of great importance to develop alternative leather production systems that produce less pollution and do not adversely affect the environment and human health. Therefore, the leather industry is looking for clean skin treatment methods that are easy to apply to come from the top of environmental constraints. In this work, it is aimed to reduce environmental pollution and provide a technically feasible alternative by changing the conventional process sequence. In the research was provided an alternative to the conventional ‘do–undo’ logic. In clean manufacturing processes, the use of enzymes or enzyme aided methods instead of the traditional Technologies look promising among the new alternative technologies targeting the minimization of environmental polution. Transglutaminase enzyme is a enzyme which is commonly used in food manufacturing to change the functional properties of the proteins. The most crucial characteristic feature of TGase enzyme is that the increase in the generation of cross-links. In this study, the possible use of TGase enzyme in revered flow the conventional leather processing was investigated, and the effects of TGase enzyme on the properties of the leather and the pollution load of the process wastewaters was presented. Keywords: Environment, transglutaminase enzyme, leather, reversed flow production