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Cell Growth and Lipid Production from Fed-batch Cultivation of Chlorella minutissima according to Culture Conditions  

Oh, Sung-Ho (College of Bioscience and Biotechnology Division of Biomaterials Engineering, Kangwon National University)
Han, Jae-Gun (College of Bioscience and Biotechnology Division of Biomaterials Engineering, Kangwon National University)
Kim, Na-Young (College of Engineering Department of Biological Engineering, Kangwon National University)
Cho, Jeong-Sub (DooSan EcoBizNet)
Yim, Tae-Bin (DooSan EcoBizNet)
Lee, Shin-Young (College of Engineering Department of Biological Engineering, Kangwon National University)
Lee, Hyeon-Yong (College of Bioscience and Biotechnology Division of Biomaterials Engineering, Kangwon National University)
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KSBB Journal / v.24, no.4, 2009 , pp. 377-382 More about this Journal
Abstract
The culture condition of growing Chlorella minutissima was optimized to produce biodiesel for fed-batch cultivation. First, under heterotrophic cultivation, the optimum level of glucose was determined to be 10 g/L for 20 days. After, three cultivation conditions were operated: autotrophic, heterotrophic, and mixotrophic growth. The lipid level and the maximum cell concentration from the fed-batch heterotrophic process were 32.0 (%, v/v) and 15.0 (g-dry wt./L) in 20 L flask, respectively. In addition, since the relatively constant specific lipid production rate was observed as 0.040 (% lipid/g-dry wt./day) at the latter period of cultivation time, the fed-batch process could maintain continuous lipid production. Fed-batch process is higher than those values from the batch process. The lipids from the fed-batch process contained over 38% of $C_{18}$, known as the suitable composition for the biodiesel application. For mixotrophic and heterotrophic growth under fed-batch condition, glucose was proved to be an appropriate carbon source for a large scale outdoor cultivation. For fed-batch cultivation, the feeding rate of seawater medium containing glucose was decided to be 0.5 L/day. The mixotrophic cultivation maintained maximum cell concentration of 24 (g-dry wt./L) and the lipid level of 43 (%, w/w). The lipid composition from this process was also proved to be suitable for the biodiesel production. The fatty acids from the mixotrophic growth contains 18% of $C_{17}$ and 49% of $C_{18}$, implying It also tells that C. minutissima is a suitable resource of biodiesel. Especially, the mixotrophic cultivation with fed-batch process might be useful for the large scale cultivation for the biodiesel production.
Keywords
autotrophic; heterotrophic; mixotrophic; Chlorella minutissima;
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