期刊
WASTE MANAGEMENT
卷 124, 期 -, 页码 195-202出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.02.003
关键词
Sophorolipids; Waste-cooking oil; Starmerella bombicola; Methyl hydroxy branched fatty acids; Building block; Bio-based plastic
资金
- R&D programs of MOTIE/KEIT [10077291, 10080592]
- KRICT [SS204210]
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) [10080592] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
Waste-cooking oil (WCO), defined as vegetable oil used to fry food at high temperatures, generates 41-67 million tons annually globally. Without proper treatment, it causes serious environmental issues, but through biotechnology, WCO can be recycled to produce high value-added compounds, extending its applications to the plastics industry.
Waste-cooking oil (WCO) is defined as vegetable oil that has been used to fry food at high temperatures. The annual global generation of WCO is 41-67 million tons. Without proper treatment, most WCO is abandoned in sinks and the solid residue of WCO is disposed of in landfills, resulting in serious environmental problems. Recycling and valorizing WCO have received considerable attention to reduce its negative impact on ecosystems. To convert WCO into a high value-added compound, we aimed to produce sophorolipids (SLs) that are industrially important biosurfactants, using WCO as a hydrophobic substrate by the fed-batch fermentation of Starmerella bombicola. The SLs concentration was increased similar to 3.7-fold compared with flask culture (315.6 vs. 84.8 g/L), which is the highest value ever generated from WCO. To expand the applications of SLs, we prepared methyl hydroxy branched fatty acids (MHBFAs) from SLs, which are important chemicals for various industries yet difficult to produce by chemical methods, using a bio-chemical hybrid approach. We synthesized bio-based plastics using MHBFAs as co monomers. Compared with the control polymer without MHBFAs, even the incorporation of 1 mol% into polymer chains improved mechanical properties (such as ultimate tensile strength, 1.1-fold increase; toughness, 1.3-fold increase). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to apply MHBFAs from SLs derived from WCO to building blocks of plastics. Thus, we extended the valorization areas of WCO to one of the world's largest industries. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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