Lactic acid production from cereal-derived materials

  • Oh, Hur-Ok (Faculty of Applied Chemical Engineering, Institute of Bioindustrial Technology, Chonnam National University, Korea Petroleum Quality Inspection Institute) ;
  • Yun, Jong-Sun (Faculty of Applied Chemical Engineering, Institute of Bioindustrial Technology) ;
  • Wee, Young-Jung (Faculty of Applied Chemical Engineering, Institute of Bioindustrial Technology) ;
  • Ryu, Hwa-Won (Faculty of Applied Chemical Engineering, Institute of Bioindustrial Technology)
  • Published : 2003.10.22

Abstract

In this study, batch production of lactic acid from cheap law material such as barley, wheat, and corn, was tried to lower the total production cost of lactic acid. Although no nutrients were supplemented, lactic acid productivities were achieved up to 0.88 $g/(L{\cdot}hr)$ from barley, wheat and com enzymatic hydrolysate. By adding corn steep liquor to com and wheat hydrolysate media, realtively high lactic acid $productivities(4.14\;g/(L{\cdot}hr))$ were obtained.

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