PROCESS FOR SEPARATION OF RENEWABLE MATERIALS FROM MICROORGANISMS

• Main Authors: JEFFERS DAVID, BORDEN JACOB, DUMENIL JEAN CHARLES, SELLERS MARTIN JOHN, PAI VIDYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.09.2015
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

Methods of separating renewable materials such as lipids from microorganisms such as oleaginous yeasts may include conditioning cell walls of the microorganisms to form open or enlarge pores and removing at least a portion of the renewable material through the pores. These methods may result in deli...