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freeze drying

[′frēz ‚drī·iŋ]
(engineering)
A method of drying materials, such as certain foods, that would be destroyed by the loss of volatile ingredients or by drying temperatures above the freezing point; the material is frozen under high vacuum so that ice or other frozen solvent will quickly sublime and a porous solid remain.
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The investment forms part of Recipharm's strategy to become a leading lyophilisation provider, and is in addition to the ongoing investment at Recipharm in Wasserburg, Germany, where a further 32 million is currently being spent to increase capacity.
Porous chitosan structures are formed by freezing and lyophilisation. During the freezing process, ice crystals are formed.
Following heat-killing and subsequent lyophilisation, LPS was recovered using a previously described hot-phenol extraction method [15, 26].
A correction for gravimetric water content (Eqn 2) was not applied to the measured OC values obtained for the coarse or fine fractions since they were dried completely by lyophilisation before analysis.
Other methods of improving the yield of cells include lyophilisation of cells [27] and novel storage methods.
The lyophilisation process was more efficient for removing water from the material and resulted in a product with higher content of lipids.
Freeze-drying (also known as lyophilisation or cryodesiccation) is a dehydration process typically used to preserve perishable materials or make materials lighter or more convenient for transport.
The cells were then dried by lyophilisation in the freeze dryer (FTS System, U) (Adwitiya et al., 2009).
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