Energy-Saving Lipid Extraction from Wet Euglena gracilis by the Low-Boiling-Point Solvent Dimethyl Ether

Hideki Kanda, Peng Li, Motonobu Goto and Hisao Makino
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Hideki Kanda: Department of Chemical Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
Peng Li: Energy Engineering Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0196, Japan
Motonobu Goto: Department of Chemical Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
Hisao Makino: Energy Engineering Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0196, Japan

Energies, 2015, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: We tested a wet extraction method for lipid extraction from Euglena gracilis water slurry at 0.51 MPa and 20 °C using liquefied dimethyl ether (DME). The yields, proximate analyses, elemental composition, and molecular weight distribution properties of the extracts from E. gracilis and the remaining residues obtained by DME extraction were compared with those of the extracts obtained by hexane Soxhlet extraction.

Keywords: dimethyl ether; Euglena gracilis; lipid extraction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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