MICROBIAL OILS WITH LOWERED POUR POINTS, DIELECTRIC FLUIDS PRODUCED THEREFROM, AND RELATED METHODS

• Main Authors: Franklin Scott, Rudenko George, Wee Janice, Lu Wenhua, Rakitsky Walter, Zhao Xinhua, Rodriguez Felipe Arana
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.12.2016
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CABLES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CONDUCTORS; CULTURE MEDIA; EDIBLE OILS OR FATS, e.g. MARGARINES, SHORTENINGS, COOKINGOILS; ELECTRICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; INDUCTANCES; INSULATORS; MAGNETS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING ORDIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; SPIRITS; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRANSFORMERS; VINEGAR; WINE

Methods and compositions for the production of dielectric fluids from lipids produced by microorganisms are provided, including oil-bearing microorganisms and methods of low cost cultivation of such microorganisms. Microalgal cells containing exogenous genes encoding, for example, a sucrose transporter, a sucrose invertase, a fructokinase, a polysaccharide-degrading enzyme, a lipid pathway modification enzyme, a fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase, a desaturase, a fatty acyl-CoA/aldehyde reductase, and/or an acyl carrier protein are useful in manufacturing dielectric fluids.