Lipid production from Nannochloropsis sp. grown in palm oil mill effluent

• Main Authors: Paramasivam, Primilla, Palanisamy, Karthick Murugan, Jayakumar, Saravanan, Govindan, Natanamurugaraj, Mohd Hasbi, Ab. Rahim, Gaanty Pragas, Maniam
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: QD Chemistry
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30631/3/Lipid%20production%20from%20Nannochloropsis1.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30631/

Palm oil mill effluent (POME) used as a medium to culture marine algae Nannochloropsis sp. with the aim of producing the highest possible biomass, in turn the highest amount of lipid. The lipid is proposed to be transesterified into methyl esters, then the fatty acids composition was determined. Opt...