How Enzymes Are Used In Detergent Industry?
The protease and amylase have also been exploiting by the detergent industry for the manufacture of washing powders. However, a small problem here was that the protease obtained from the animal source was able to dissolve particles of dirt, although they were not suitable for the boiled wash since the enzymes were destroyed at the high temperatures. The first enzymatic detergent was not, as might have been expected, marked in the United States, but in Holland in 1963. However, it is only useful for the prewasshing up to 40 C, since the bacterial enzymes and could not withstand greater temperatures. This problem has been solved as well by selecting similar bacterial enzymes which were less sensitive to temperature and permitted rapid multiplication by way of fermentation. That was the beginning of enzyme detergents. The first enzymatic detergent provided with almost as much heat stability as the enzymes in volcanic lava was marketed in 1967. It sometimes caused skin irritation and aller
