Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 290, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.121794
Keywords
Astaxanthin; Haematococcus pluvialis; Liquid biphasic flotation; Recovery; Microalgae
Funding
- Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Malaysia [FRGS/1/2015/SG05/UNIM/03/1]
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Malaysia [MOSTI02-02-12-SF0256]
- Prototype Research Grant Scheme, Malaysia [PRGS/2/2015/SG05/UNIM/03/1]
- Monash University Malaysia Sustainable Community Grant Scheme [SDG-2018-04-SCI]
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This work aimed to study the application of liquid biphasic flotation (LBF) for the efficient and rapid recovery of astaxanthin from H. pluvialis microalgae. The performance of LBF for the extraction of astaxanthin was studied comprehensively under different operating conditions, including types and concentrations of food-grade alcohol and salt, volume ratio, addition of neutral salt, flotation period, and mass of dried H. pluvialis biomass powder. The maximum recovery, extraction efficiency and partition coefficient of astaxanthin obtained from the optimum LBF system were 95.11 +/- 1.35%, 99.84 +/- 0.05% and 385.16 +/- 3.87, respectively. A scaled-up LBF system was also performed, demonstrating the feasibility of extracting natural astaxanthin from microalgae at a larger scale. This exploration of LBF system opens a promising avenue to the extraction of astaxanthin at lower cost and shorter processing time.
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