Abstract
The screening for high lipid producing microalgae is a crucial step to enable large scale cultivation of suitable microalgae as a means of alternative energy. The Bligh and Dyer method has been traditionally used for the determination of biofuel-related lipids. But, we found that this method also extracts chlorophyll, to result in significant over-estimation of biofuel-related lipid measures. In this work, we present and characterize a method to obviate the chlorophyll interference to biofuel-related lipid determination.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 805-808 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Biomass and Bioenergy |
| Volume | 46 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2012 |
Funding
We would like to acknowledge and thank R. Kumaravel for helping us with DMSO distillation and Department of Biotechnology , India for their financial assistance.
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
Keywords
- Biofuel-related lipid extraction
- Chlorophyll contamination
- DMSO
- Microalgae
- Neutral lipids
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Forestry
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Agronomy and Crop Science
- Waste Management and Disposal
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