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Bacteria can breakdown biodiesel waste into useful products

Vaishali Lavekar • December 5, 2017, 22:31:46 IST
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Biodiesel production is generally expensive due to the cost of disposal of crude glycerol.

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**Biodiesel** manufacturing is picking up globally, resulting in a byproduct called glycerol. Indian scientists have now developed a technique to break down glycerol into commercially useful products using bacterial strains. [caption id=“attachment_4244103” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![Representational image. Reuters.](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/biodiesel-380p-reuters.jpg) Representational image. Reuters.[/caption] Scientists have identified two bacterial strains which can use crude glycerol as carbon as well as an energy source for production of commercially valuable compounds - 2,3- butanediol (BDO), 1,3- Propanediol (PDO) - along with acetoin and ethanol. The process has been developed by a team of scientists at Chemical Engineering and Process Development Division jointly with National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms Center, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. Researchers used a mixed bacterial culture to ferment crude bio-glycerol under aerobic conditions. The bacterial strains used were Enterobacter aerogenes NCIM 2695 and Klebsialla pneumoniae NCIM 5215. These strains when used together can lead to 100% transformation of crude glycerol. Biodiesel **production** is generally expensive due to the cost of disposal of crude glycerol. Its economics can be improved by downstream processing of glycerol which is a highly functional molecule. Among value-added chemicals possible from glycerol are 1,2- and 1,3 – propanediols, ethylene glycol, which have wide industrial applications. “The chemo-catalytic conversion of crude glycerol into useful molecules requires the use of cost-intensive metal catalysts,” said Dr. Chandrashekhar Rode, who led the research team. “Apart from cost advantage, the bio-catalytic route yields products such as 2,3-butanediol from glycerol without the need of a separate fermentation medium,” he added. This process of biorefining of glycerol coupled with biodiesel production is a significant example of green biotechnology. This work has been published in the journal Bioresource Technology. The research team included Roopa Parate, Rasika Mane, Mahesh Dharne and Dr. Chandrashekhar Rode, Chemical Engineering Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. India Science Wire

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