Agricultural Sciences, Chemical Sciences
Title : | Cost effective sustainable process for microalgal based ?-linolenic acid production from microalgae through biorefinery approach |
Area of research : | Agricultural Sciences, Chemical Sciences |
Focus area : | Linolenic acid production from microalgae |
Principal Investigator : | Dr Sourish Bhattacharya, Scientist, CSIR-Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), Bhavnagar |
Timeline Start Year : | 2020 |
Timeline End Year : | 2022 |
Contact info : | director@csmcri.res.in |
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Executive Summary : | Objective: Microalgal cultivation at a scale of 750 m2, Generation of 50 Kg ?-linolenic acid, 3 Kg e-polylysine and 18 Kg protein rich biomass Summary: A sustainable model will be designed for the production of high-value products from Chlorella variabilis through a greener approach. Microalgal cultivation at a scale of 3ton per annum will be done for preparing 50 Kg ?-linolenic acid, 3 Kg e-polylysine and 18 Kg protein powder on annual basis. In this proposed project, a sustainable process will be developed for production of 50 Kg ?-linolenic acid, 3 Kg e-polylysine and 18 Kg protein rich powder from 3 ton microalgal biomass using wild strain CSMCRI’s Chlorella variabilis(ATCC PTA 12198). Microalgal mass cultivation will be done in 10 open ponds each having 15m x 5m x 0.5m dimension. The total capacity of each pond will be 37 m3 wherein two ponds will be kept for generating the inoculum and 8 ponds will be utilized for mass cultivation for generating the biomass with assumed average productivity of 70±5 g/m2/d. Further, ?-linolenic acid and e-polylysine would be prepared from generated microalgal biomass. |
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