Journal of Bioprocessing & Biotechniques

Pranav H Nakhate

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• Research Article
  Optimisation of Rhamnolipid: A New Age Biosurfactant from Pseudomonas aeruginosa MTCC 1688 and its Application in Oil Recovery, Heavy and Toxic Metals Recovery
  Author(s): Pathaka AN and Pranav H NakhatePathaka AN and Pranav H Nakhate
  
  Rhamnolipid is a new age biosurfactant, commonly produced biotechnologically with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in batch cultivations whereas novel substrates like karanja oil and soybean oil cake were employed, giving yield of 3.609 gm/lit of rhamnolipid, which shows effective and enhanced production of rhamnolipid, compared to other vegetable oil as a carbon sources, mentioned in the literature, at optimised pH of 7.0 and optimised substrate concentration at 3.0%. The optimum yield in terms of substrate was observed as 3.609 gm/lit of rhamnolipid produced per 5.255 ml of oil consumed, while yield in terms of biomass was observed as 3.609 gm/lit of rhamnolipid produced per 2.5 gm of dry biomass. The chloroform:methanol (2:1) extraction system was found to be the best solvent extraction system, where 83% of the rhamnolipid was recovered. The Rhamnolipid .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9821.1000229

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