Abstract: The preparation of syrups which contain a high glucose or maltose content may be effected in a two-step process. In the first step, a feedstock such as starch which has been pretreated with alpha-amylase to adjust the dextrose equivalent is contacted with an enzyme such as amyloglucosidase or beta-amylase immobilized on a solid support. The contact time is adjusted by correlating the residence time and the liquid hourly space velocity so as to provide a conversion percentage of starch in the range of from about 50% to 85%, thus avoiding the formation of undesired conversion products. The partially hydrolyzed reaction mixture from the enzyme treatment is then passed through an ultrafiltration membrane whereby the permeate comprising the high glucose or maltose content is recovered, while the retentate is recycled for admixture with the partially hydrolyzed reaction mixture or for further treatment with the immobilized enzyme.

Abstract: Thermal deactivation of amyloglucosidase is substantially retarded at elevated pressures relative to atmospheric pressure. The productivity of glucose formation from amyloglucosidase-catalyzed hydrolysis of starch or partially hydrolyzed starch is significantly increased when the hydrolysis is performed at a pressure greater than about 500 psig.

Abstract: Commercial glucose solutions used as feedstock for enzymatic conversion of glucose to fructose by glucose isomerase often contain materials which act as poisons toward the enzyme. It has been found that these poisons can be removed, or destroyed, by treatment of the feedstock with oxidizing agents, chief of which is hydrogen peroxide.

Abstract: Commercial glucose solutions used as feedstocks for enzymatic conversion of glucose to fructose by glucose isomerase often contain materials which act as poisons toward the enzyme. It has been found that these poisons can be removed, or destroyed, by treatment of the feedstock with reducing agents which are water soluble and water stable metal hydrides, such as sodium borohydride.

Abstract: An improved method of preparing support matrices, characterized as inorganic oxides impregnated with a polyamine cross-linked with a bifunctional reagent so as to furnish a plurality of pendant functional groups, comprises impregnating the oxide at a pH less than about 4 and subsequently curing the polyamine-impregnated oxide at a pH from about 8 to about 12. This improved method leads to subsequently prepared immobilized enzyme systems whose activity is increased by about 35%.