Valorization of African Giant Land Snail Shell Waste (Archachatina marginata) By Extraction of Chitosan From it
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https://doi.org/10.62638/ZasMat1406Abstract
The African giant land snail (Archachantina marginata) is one of the most common mollusks in southern Nigeria. It has a shell that constitutes more than half of its body mass and it is usually discarded as waste. As snail meat consumption increases due to more awareness of its nutritional and health benefits, its shell wastes is expected to increase as well. The snail shell waste is highly underutilized and may cause serious environmental problems shortly if not properly channeled and harnessed for industrial production. This has become necessary considering the growing patronage of the Congo meat coupled with its shell’s negligible solubility in water, and poor biodegradability rate. The goal of the present study is to valorize snail shell wastes by extracting chitosan, a versatile and top-demanding biopolymer from it. Chitosan was extracted by chemical methods and characterized by FTIR, PXRD, and DD. The results show that snail shell chitosan is of comparable quality to commercially marketed shrimp chitosan. Snail shell chitosan has a DD value of 78.4 %, solubility of 95.35 %, moisture of 1.42 %, and ash value of 1.61 % which affirms snail shell-chitosan as a sustainable and suitable feedstock for commercial production of chitosan. The yield of chitosan based on snail shells was 14.83 % which is comparable to yield from crustacean shell wastes.
Keywords:
archachatina marginata, shell waste, chitosan, quality parameters, valorizationReferences
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