Luis Fernando Flores , Carlos S. Osorio-Gonzalez , Rahul Saini , Satinder Kaur Brar
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Abstract
Rhodosporidium toruloides-1588 efficiently utilizes various renewable residues for lipid synthesis, that potentially can be used for advanced drop-in biofuel production. However, to improve the feasibility, a streamlined sequential lipid extraction-transesterification process with minimal unit operations is essential. To enhance lipid extraction from R. toruloides-1588 fresh biomass, environmentally friendly solvents in combination with ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) were evaluated and compared to the highly used Folch-modified method. The results demonstrated a 291.45 % extraction efficiency in comparison to the reference method using methanol-UAE at the 1:1 ratio (broth removed: solvent added). Subsequent one- or two-step transesterification using KOH and H2SO4 produced fatty acid methyl esters (FAME’s) with a similar distribution to the reference method being oleic, linoleic, palmitic, and stearic fatty acids, the most abundant. Thus, a potentially energy-saving method was developed by removing cell drying and thermochemical hydrolysis steps. Likewise, the proposed method decreases solvent consumption during the ultrasonication-assisted lipid extraction and direct transesterification of R. toruloides-1588 single-cell oil.
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Process Biochemistry is an application-orientated research journal devoted to reporting advances with originality and novelty, in the science and technology of the processes involving bioactive molecules and living organisms. These processes concern the production of useful metabolites or materials, or the removal of toxic compounds using tools and methods of current biology and engineering. Its main areas of interest include novel bioprocesses and enabling technologies (such as nanobiotechnology, tissue engineering, directed evolution, metabolic engineering, systems biology, and synthetic biology) applicable in food (nutraceutical), healthcare (medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic), energy (biofuels), environmental, and biorefinery industries and their underlying biological and engineering principles.