Yeast Biomass Production from Concentrated Sugar Cane Stillage Using a Thermotolerant Candida rugosa

  • Lee, Ki-Young (Department of Food and Nutrition, Hoseo University) ;
  • Lee, Sung-Taek (Department of Biological Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 1995.04.01

Abstract

Concentrated Brazillian sugar cane stillage was used as a substrate for the yeast biomass production using Candida rugosa isolated from East Africa. At the optimum stillage concentration of 10% dry matter, biomass production was 20.4 g/l and COD reduction rate was 41%. The specific growth rate of the yeast was 0.17 $h^{-1}$ and the corresponding productivity 0.91 g $l{-1} h^{-1}$ in the batch fermentation was observed at $40{\circ}^C$.

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