A packed sieveplate roll contactor was designed to extraction protein with reversed micelles. The experimental results indicated that the new contactor could solve the phase separation problem of reversed micelles. The lowest salt concentration operating the new contactor with reversed micelles was determined as 0.02mol/L KCI. Petroleum ether
which is much cheaper than pure straight chain hydrocarbons such as isooctane and he-cane and did not lead to denaturization of protein
could be used as solvent in protein eXtraction with reversed micelles.