Biodiesel production from oleaginous microorganisms

By Xin Meng, Jianming Yang, Xin Xu, Lei Zhang, Q. Nie, M. Xian. 2009

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High energy prices, energy and environment security, concerns about petroleum supplies are drawing considerable attention to find a renewable biofuels. Biodiesel, a mixture of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) derived from animal fats or vegetable oils, is rapidly moving towards the mainstream as an alternative source of energy. However, biodiesel derived from conventional petrol or from oilseeds or animal fat cannot meet realistic need, and can only be used for a small fraction of existing demand for transport fuels. In addition, expensive large acreages for sufficient production of oilseed crops or cost to feed animals are needed for raw oil production. Therefore, oleaginous microorganisms are available for substituting conventional oil in biodiesel production. Most of the oleaginous microorganisms like microalgae, bacillus, fungi and yeast are all available for biodiesel production. Regulation mechanism of oil accumulation in microorganism and approach of making microbial diesel economically competitive with petrodiesel are discussed in this review.

Subfields: Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Citations in the corpus

• Yarrowia lipolytica as an Oleaginous Cell Factory Platform for Production of Fatty Acid-Based Biofuel and Bioproducts (2014, background): “The anaerobic digestion of residual biomass is another means of reducing the production costs (Meng et al., 2009).”
• Oleaginous Yeasts as Cell Factories for the Sustainable Production of Microbial Lipids by the Valorization of Agri-Food Wastes (2021, background): “De Novo Synthesis All microorganisms are able to synthesize lipids using the same accumulation route, although only oleaginous yeasts are able to accumulate high lipid concentrations, equivalent to more than 20% of their dry cell weight (DCW).”
• Microalgae: A promising feedstock for biodiesel (2009, background): “as palmitic (16:0) and stearic (18:0) also present with a small proportion ( Meng et al., 2009 ).”
• Seasonal variation of lipids and fatty acids of the microalgae Nannochloropsis oculata grown in outd (2012, background): “Oxidative stability and combustion quality of diesel fuel in different temperatures are important features in biodiesel production [3] together with similar properties to high value oil and adaptability to industrial production [4].”