Extraction of brewer's yeasts using different methods of cell disruption for practical biodiesel production.
The methods of preparation of fatty acids from brewer's yeast and its use in production of biofuels and in different branches of industry are described. Isolation of fatty acids from cell lipids includes cell disintegration (e.g., with liquid nitrogen, KOH, NaOH, petroleum ether, nitrogenous basic compounds, etc.) and subsequent processing of extracted lipids, including analysis of fatty acid and computing of biodiesel properties such as viscosity, density, cloud point, and cetane number. Methyl esters obtained from brewer's waste yeast are well suited for the production of biodiesel. All 49 samples (7 breweries and 7 methods) meet the requirements for biodiesel quality in both the composition of fatty acids and the properties of the biofuel required by the US and EU standards.
Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20, Prague, Czech Republic, rezanka@biomed.cas.cz.
Tomáš
T
Řezanka
Dagmar
D
Matoulková
Irena
I
Kolouchová
Jan
J
Masák
Ivan
I
Viden
Karel
K
Sigler
D056804:Biofuels / Q000032:analysis*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D005285:Fermentation; D007218:Industrial Microbiology / Q000379:methods*; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
D056804:Biofuels; D005227:Fatty Acids; D008055:Lipids; D009584:Nitrogen