chitin-glucan compounds are useful raw materials for manufacturing absorbent agents for water treatment, pharmaceuticals, nutritional products, artificial skin, among others.
The technology describes a process for the manufacture of chitin and chitin-glucan complexes from chitin-rich biomaterials such as mycelium of microfungi and/or exoskeletons of crustaceans. It uses compressed, hot, liquid water at temperatures and pressures below the critical point of water, called subcritical water, is a process of higher efficiency and the product obtained presents a proportion of chitin between 19% and 55%.
