Research Progress on Recycling of Soy Whey Wastewater

Soy whey wastewater(SWW) is produced in the production processes of tofu and soybean protein isolates. It has a large discharged volume and contains rich organic compounds such as whey soy proteins, oligosaccharides and soy isoflavones. At present, SWW is discharged into sewage plants and then treat...

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Main Authors: Yiwen SUN, Yating ZOU, Xinyue MA, Miaomiao LIU, Rui LI
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Published: The editorial department of Science and Technology of Food Industry 2022-01-01
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Online Access:http://www.spgykj.com/cn/article/doi/10.13386/j.issn1002-0306.2020120174
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author Yiwen SUN
Yating ZOU
Xinyue MA
Miaomiao LIU
Rui LI
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Yating ZOU
Xinyue MA
Miaomiao LIU
Rui LI
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description Soy whey wastewater(SWW) is produced in the production processes of tofu and soybean protein isolates. It has a large discharged volume and contains rich organic compounds such as whey soy proteins, oligosaccharides and soy isoflavones. At present, SWW is discharged into sewage plants and then treated via biochemical methods by most factories. This results in an increase in the production costs of tofu and soybean protein isolate and a large loss of the organics compounds. Therefore, the recycling of SWW has become a burning problem. On this ground, the studies on the recycling of SWW in recent years were reviewed from two perspectives: recovery of active compounds from SWW and biotransformation of SWW. The advantages and disadvantages of the two perspectives were also described. The results showed that most of the methods for recycling SWW were limited in a lab-scale. Only the recovery of whey soy proteins as animal feeds and biotransformation of SWW into biogas were operated in the industrial scale. On this basis, three future research directions were proposed for promoting the recycling of SWW: reducing the separation costs and increasing the use values of active compounds in SWW, increasing the transformation efficiency and rate of SWW and added values of corresponding products and evaluating the economic benefits of recycling methods to determine the feasibility of their industrialization.
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spelling doaj.art-0f8c94b209564f0c83bcc9844142e36c2022-12-22T04:11:35ZzhoThe editorial department of Science and Technology of Food IndustryShipin gongye ke-ji1002-03062022-01-0143145145710.13386/j.issn1002-0306.20201201742020120174-1Research Progress on Recycling of Soy Whey WastewaterYiwen SUN0Yating ZOU1Xinyue MA2Miaomiao LIU3Rui LI4School of Biological Science, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276826, ChinaSchool of Biological Science, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276826, ChinaSchool of Biological Science, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276826, ChinaSchool of Biological Science, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276826, ChinaSchool of Biological Science, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276826, ChinaSoy whey wastewater(SWW) is produced in the production processes of tofu and soybean protein isolates. It has a large discharged volume and contains rich organic compounds such as whey soy proteins, oligosaccharides and soy isoflavones. At present, SWW is discharged into sewage plants and then treated via biochemical methods by most factories. This results in an increase in the production costs of tofu and soybean protein isolate and a large loss of the organics compounds. Therefore, the recycling of SWW has become a burning problem. On this ground, the studies on the recycling of SWW in recent years were reviewed from two perspectives: recovery of active compounds from SWW and biotransformation of SWW. The advantages and disadvantages of the two perspectives were also described. The results showed that most of the methods for recycling SWW were limited in a lab-scale. Only the recovery of whey soy proteins as animal feeds and biotransformation of SWW into biogas were operated in the industrial scale. On this basis, three future research directions were proposed for promoting the recycling of SWW: reducing the separation costs and increasing the use values of active compounds in SWW, increasing the transformation efficiency and rate of SWW and added values of corresponding products and evaluating the economic benefits of recycling methods to determine the feasibility of their industrialization.http://www.spgykj.com/cn/article/doi/10.13386/j.issn1002-0306.2020120174soy whey wastewateractive ingredientsrecoverybiotransformation
spellingShingle Yiwen SUN
Yating ZOU
Xinyue MA
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Research Progress on Recycling of Soy Whey Wastewater
Shipin gongye ke-ji
soy whey wastewater
active ingredients
recovery
biotransformation
title Research Progress on Recycling of Soy Whey Wastewater
title_full Research Progress on Recycling of Soy Whey Wastewater
title_fullStr Research Progress on Recycling of Soy Whey Wastewater
title_full_unstemmed Research Progress on Recycling of Soy Whey Wastewater
title_short Research Progress on Recycling of Soy Whey Wastewater
title_sort research progress on recycling of soy whey wastewater
topic soy whey wastewater
active ingredients
recovery
biotransformation
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