Fermentation parameter optimization of microbial oxalic acid production from cashew apple juice
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- 作者：Eriola Betiku ; ebetiku@oauife.edu.ng" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Harrison A. Emeko ; Bamidele O. Solomon
- 关键词：Biochemical engineering ; Applied microbiology ; Food science ; Mathematical modelling ; Optimization
- 刊名：Heliyon
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：February 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：2
- 期：2
- 全文大小：1847 K
文摘
The potential of cashew apple juice (CAJ) as a carbon source for oxalic acid (OA) production via fermentation process was investigated in this study. The effects and interactions of CAJ concentration, time, pH, NaNO3 concentration and methanol concentration on OA production were determined in a central composite design (CCD) and the process was modelled and optimized using response surface methodology (RSM). The results showed that OA fermentation can be described significantly (p < 0.05) by a quadratic model giving regression coefficient (R2) of 0.9964. NaNO3 concentration was the most significant positive variable while methanol was not a significant variable. A maximum OA concentration of 122.68 g/l could be obtained using the optimum levels of CAJ of 150.0 g/l, pH of 5.4, time of 7.31 days, NaNO3 of 2 g/l and methanol of 1% volume. The production of OA was found to increase from 106.75 to 122.68 g/l using the statistically design optimization. This study revealed that CAJ could serve as an inexpensive and abundant feedstock for fermentative OA production, the resulting model could be used in the design of a typical pilot plant for a scale up production.