TY - JOUR
T1 - Waste office paper
T2 - A potential biorefinery feedstock for microbial lipids for biodiesel production
AU - Nair, Anu Sadasivan
AU - Annamalai, Neelamegam
AU - Sivakumar, Nallusamy
N1 - Funding Information:
5.3 Acknowledgements The authors are greatly thankful to The Research Council (TRC), Oman for financial support (ORG/EBR/14/003).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 ETA-Florence Renewable Energies.
PY - 2018/5
Y1 - 2018/5
N2 - Waste paper is one among the major municipal solid wastes, which has a potential to serve as renewable feedstock for the bio-refineries of fuels, chemicals and materials. In this study, waste office paper was evaluated for its potential to be used as a renewable feedstock for the production of microbial lipids for biodiesel. The effect of various parameters such as hydrolysis time, enzyme loading, mass of waste office paper, working volume of flask and agitation in enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated waste office paper was investigated through statistical optimization using response surface methodology. The results suggested that the 92h, 50 FPU/g enzyme, 5% substrate, 50ml working volume156 rpm were the most suitable for high sugar yield from waste office paper. Further, waste office paper hydrolysate was used as a substrate for the lipid production by an oleaginous yeast Cryptococcus curvatus. The fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profile revealed that palmitic acid, stearic acid and oleic acid were the dominant fatty acids in lipids of C. curvatus. Thus, this study suggested that the waste paper being the main constituent in the municipal solid waste could be reduced and utilized for the production of biodiesel.
AB - Waste paper is one among the major municipal solid wastes, which has a potential to serve as renewable feedstock for the bio-refineries of fuels, chemicals and materials. In this study, waste office paper was evaluated for its potential to be used as a renewable feedstock for the production of microbial lipids for biodiesel. The effect of various parameters such as hydrolysis time, enzyme loading, mass of waste office paper, working volume of flask and agitation in enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated waste office paper was investigated through statistical optimization using response surface methodology. The results suggested that the 92h, 50 FPU/g enzyme, 5% substrate, 50ml working volume156 rpm were the most suitable for high sugar yield from waste office paper. Further, waste office paper hydrolysate was used as a substrate for the lipid production by an oleaginous yeast Cryptococcus curvatus. The fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profile revealed that palmitic acid, stearic acid and oleic acid were the dominant fatty acids in lipids of C. curvatus. Thus, this study suggested that the waste paper being the main constituent in the municipal solid waste could be reduced and utilized for the production of biodiesel.
KW - Biodiesel
KW - Hydrolysis
KW - Optimization
KW - RSM
KW - Transesterification
KW - Waste office paper
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85051039808
SN - 2282-5819
VL - 2018
SP - 925
EP - 927
JO - European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings
JF - European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings
IS - 26thEUBCE
ER -
