期刊
FUEL
卷 116, 期 -, 页码 566-577出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2013.08.045
关键词
Microbial oil; Fermentation; Biodiesel; Design; Techno-economic evaluation
资金
- National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)
- National (Greek Ministry General Secretariat of Research and Technology)
Experimental results from the open literature have been employed for the design and techno-economic evaluation of four process flowsheets for the production of microbial oil or biodiesel. The fermentation of glucose-based media using the yeast strain Rhodosporidium toruloides has been considered. Biodiesel production was based on the exploitation of either direct transesterification (without extraction of lipids from microbial biomass) or indirect transesterifaction of extracted microbial oil. When glucose-based renewable resources are used as carbon source for an annual production capacity of 10,000 t microbial oil and zero cost of glucose (assuming development of integrated biorefineries in existing industries utilising waste or by-product streams) the estimated unitary cost of purified microbial oil is $ 3.4/kg. Biodiesel production via indirect transesterification of extracted microbial oil proved more cost-competitive process compared to the direct conversion of dried yeast cells. For a price of glucose of $ 400/t oil production cost and biodiesel production cost are estimated to be $ 5.5/kg oil and $ 5.9/kg biodiesel, correspondingly. Industrial implementation of microbial oil production from oleaginous yeast is strongly dependent on the feedstock used and on the fermentation stage where significantly higher productivities and final microbial oil concentrations should be achieved. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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