Microfiltration Membranes for Herbal Purification

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The extraction of herbs is generally carried out in an aqueous solution, which extracts both the activeand more ineffective ingredients, such as tannins and gums. The current aqueous extraction process does not effectively remove tannins, gums, and other ineffective impurities. It often results in varying degrees of loss of active ingredients, making it difficult to meet quality requirements, long production cycles, low equipment utilization, and high costs. To overcome these shortcomings, Lifeasible offers a variety of methods, including macroporous resin adsorption, supercritical fluid extraction, ultrafiltration technology, and microfiltration membranes for herbal purification. This allows us to achieve a good separation of the active and inactive components in the herbal production process so that the active components are retained, and the inactive components are removed to meet the quality requirements.

Macroporous resin adsorption. Can be applied to the production of herbal medicines and new drug development, mainly applicable to the removal of impurities and purification of glycosides, alkaloids, and flavonoids components.
Supercritical fluid extraction. It is very effective in extracting volatile components, alkaloids, and flavonoids, especially for separating thermally unstable and easily oxidized active ingredients. This technique is suitable for the extraction of lipophilic, small molecular-weight substances.
Ultrafiltration technology. We can use ultrafiltration technology to separate the ineffective components from the active components (which can be separated depending on their molecular weight) in herbal remedies.

Purified microfiltration membranes

Ingredients

Wood fibers, cotton fibers, activated carbon, sepiolite, perlite, zeolite, diatomaceous earth, montmorillonite, PAE, pH regulator, etc.

Wood fibers form the coarse skeleton in purified microfiltration membranes. Cotton fibers form a branching fine skeleton in purified microfiltration membranes. Activated carbon and sepiolite have an adsorption effect. Perlite is the filling material to maintain the uniformity of pores in the membrane. Zeolite has selective adsorption of molecular sieves. Diatomaceous earth has the role of microporous precision filtration. Montmorillonite has a weak adsorption effect and improves the clarity of the solution. pH regulators adjust the pH to suit the needs of the herbal filtration medium.

Principle

Activated carbon, sepiolite, perlite, zeolite, diatomaceous earth, montmorillonite, and pH regulator are attached to a skeleton formed by wood and cotton fibers to form a honeycomb filter channel, which can be adjusted in size to suit your needs. When the herbal liquid passes through the purified microfiltration membrane, the various materials effectively weaken the binding force between the active and ineffective components of the herbal medicine, separating the active and ineffective components so that the active components of the herbal medicine are retained, and the ineffective components are removed to achieve the herbal medicine quality requirements.

The central element of the herbal preparation process required to achieve purification and separation is mainly the removal of macromolecules in herbal extracts, and insoluble particles, particulates, and sub-particles precipitated at different concentrations in the medicinal solution. These are the main factors contributing to the lack of clarity in injectable solutions, poor clarity in oral liquids, and the volume and weight in solid preparations such as granules. Lifeasible offers a wide range of technologies, especially microfiltration membranes for herbal purification, which can be used in the production of herbal purification processes to help you reduce production time and improve product quality. Please feel free to contact us to customize the herbal purification microfiltration membrane to suit your needs.

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