Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Anupama Vijaykumar Shrivastav

Pushpito Kumar Ghosh

Mahesh Ramniklal Gandhi

Sumesh Chandra Upadhyay

Subarna Maiti

Sandhya Chandrika Prasad Mishra

Harshad R Brahmbhatt

Parimal Paul

Rachapudi Badari Narayana Prasad

Sanjiv Kumar Mishra

Imran Pancha

Babulal Rebary

Krushnadevsingh Sukhdevsinh Zala

Krushnadevsinh Sukhdevsingh Zala

Subama Maiti

Bhumi Shethia

Deepti Jain

Doongar Ram Chaudhary

Vinod Boricha

Gangadharan Dyal

Ramesh Dudabhai Maru

Neelam Ondhiya

Kiritkumar Mangaldas Popat

Pritpal Singh Anand

Hetal Bosamiya

Shailesh Kumar Patidar

Tonmoy Ghosh

Krushnadevsinh Zala

Abhishek Sahu

Rahul Kumar Maurya

Chetan Paliwal

Sourish Bhattacharya

Harshad Brahmbhatt

The present invention provides a simpler and more energy efficient process for the preparation of fatty acid methyl ester (biodiesel) from sun dried whole seed capsules ofintegrated with value addition of seed shells, deoiled cake and crude glycerol co-product stream. More specifically, the invention relates to a method of dispensing with the need for excess methanol recovery through distillation, cost-effective resin treatment for the refining of methyl ester and utilization of co-streams for preparation of high density energy briquettes and Polyhydroxyalkanoate biodegradable polymer in efficient and cost-effective manner.

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An energy efficient process for the preparation of marine microalgaefatty acid methyl ester (CME) from hydrolysate of deoiled cake of(JOCH) and crude glycerol co-product stream (GL7 and GL8) along with seawater diluted with tap water (1:2). A small part of the crude glycerol layer in case of JME is processed to recover glycerol for glycerol washing and the otherwise problematic still bottom is utilized for microbial synthesis of PHAs and the rest is utilized for Microalgal conversion of JME byproducts into CME. The remaining part of the methanol-depleted glycerol layer is utilized, along with hydrolysate of thedeoiled cake (JOCH), for single-stage Microalgal production of lipids by a marine Microalgal isolate (sp.) without the need for any other nutrients. Waste streams from the microalgal processes can be discharged directly into agricultural fields as biofertilizer or recycled back in the mass cultivation.

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