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Biomass and Biopolymer Production using Vegetable Wastes as Cheap Substrates for Extremophiles

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Biomass and Biopolymer Production using Vegetable Wastes as Cheap Substrates for Extremophiles
المؤلفون: P. Di Donato, I. Finore, G. Anzelmo, L. Lama, B. Nicolaus, A. Poli
المصدر: Chemical Engineering Transactions, Vol 38 (2014)
بيانات النشر: AIDIC Servizi S.r.l., 2014.
سنة النشر: 2014
المجموعة: LCC:Chemical engineering
LCC:Computer engineering. Computer hardware
مصطلحات موضوعية: Chemical engineering, TP155-156, Computer engineering. Computer hardware, TK7885-7895
الوصف: Waste biomass is continuously generated in huge amounts by cultivation, harvest, selection and industrial transformation of fruits, vegetables and crops that are exploited for production of foods, chemicals, fertilizers and bioenergy. The management and the proper disposal of such biomass (whose levels in Italy reach about 22,000,000 t/y) is a worldwide problem both in environmental and in economical terms. On this basis we investigated a possible strategy of valorization of these residues, with particular regard to some agro-industry wastes and crop residues. Agro-industrial wastes included tomato and lemon processing wastes, fennel and carrot selection residues that are produced by some of the most important activities of Italian food industry sector. Crop residues selected for this study included giant roots and cardoon residues, that are two lignocellulosic cultures that in recent year attracted attention in relation to their potential use in bioenergy (bioethanol, biodiesel) production. All the wastes were tested as growth media in batch fermentation (BF) and dialysis fermentation (DF) modes for the production of biotechnologically useful microorganisms, namely two thermophilic species and two halophilic species. All the wastes afforded appreciable microbial biomass production and moreover they positively affected also production of enzymes and biopolymers by the studied extremophiles. The results obtained encourage to exploit such wastes as zero cost fermentation media for biotechnologically useful microorganisms, thus also providing an alternative and less environmental impacting method for vegetable wastes management.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2283-9216
Relation: https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/5633; https://doaj.org/toc/2283-9216
DOI: 10.3303/CET1438028
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/6c501928083d46c0ba22ed73db8965e8
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.6c501928083d46c0ba22ed73db8965e8
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:22839216
DOI:10.3303/CET1438028