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: Received: 28 February 2024 / Approved: 28 February 2024 / Online: 28 February 2024 (17:02:18 CET)
How to cite:
Carvajal, O.C.; Montes de Oca, J.M.G.; Moreno, D.C. Fermentative utilization of glycerol by E. coli and its implications in biodiesel industry. Preprints2024, 2024021640. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1640.v1
Carvajal, O.C.; Montes de Oca, J.M.G.; Moreno, D.C. Fermentative utilization of glycerol by E. coli and its implications in biodiesel industry. Preprints 2024, 2024021640. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1640.v1
Carvajal, O.C.; Montes de Oca, J.M.G.; Moreno, D.C. Fermentative utilization of glycerol by E. coli and its implications in biodiesel industry. Preprints2024, 2024021640. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1640.v1
APA Style
Carvajal, O.C., Montes de Oca, J.M.G., & Moreno, D.C. (2024). Fermentative utilization of glycerol by E. coli and its implications in biodiesel industry. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1640.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Carvajal, O.C., Jose Manuel Gomez Montes de Oca and Domingo Cantero Moreno. 2024 "Fermentative utilization of glycerol by E. coli and its implications in biodiesel industry" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1640.v1
Abstract
The development of biofuels and biodiesel industry specifically, has resulted in the generation of large amounts of glycerol as a surplus. The conversion of glycerol, into chemicals with indus-trial interest, through anaerobic fermentation using E. coli as a biocatalyst is an attractive alter-native to improve economic performance in the biodiesel industry, for example through the bi-otransformation of residual glycerol into ethanol. For 2019, the size of the global ethanol market was valued at $ 89.1 billion US dollar. Biodiesel can be produced from several materials like rapeseed, palm, soya, corn, palm kernel, frying oil or olive-pomace oil (OPO). The last, can be extracted from alperujo, byproduct of olive oil process. However, olive-pomace oil converting into biodiesel is not enough established to achieve a global olive-oil/biodiesel derived process with minimized waste generation. Traditionally biodiesel production process produces an equivalent of 10% by mass of glycerol as a waste or by-product. This work explores the conver-sion of residual glycerol into chemicals like ethanol and hydrogen with a focus on projecting raw material potential availability from OPO, contributing to the promotion of the use of biofu-els and biodegradable compounds.
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