Version 1
: 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.
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.