Lipid recovery from a vegetable oil emulsion using microbial enrichment cultures

Background Many waste streams have a relatively high vegetable oil content, which is a potential resource that should be recovered. Microbial storage compound production for the recovery of lipids from lipid-water emulsions with open (unsterilized) microbial cultures was investigated in a sequencing batch reactor using a diluted vegetable oil...

Method for obtaining an open phototrophic culture with improved storage compound production capacity

The invention is directed to a method for producing an open phototrophic culture with improved storage compound production capability. In accordance with the invention, a starting culture is submitted to selective pressure, thus giving a competitive advantage to storage compound producing species, by subjecting said starting culture to a cycle...