Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Bhumi Shethia

Pushpito Kumar Ghosh

Mahesh Ramniklal Gandhi

Subarna Maiti

Sumesh Chandra Upadhyay

Imran Pancha

Sandhya Chandrika Prasad Mishra

Anupama Vijaykumar Shrivastav

Sanjiv Kumar Mishra

Deepti Jain

Subama Maiti

Krushnadevsinh Sukhdevsingh Zala

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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