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Bacterial SCP from methanol in Kuwait: Product revovery and composition
Author(s) -
Prokop A.,
Ratcliffe H. D.,
Fatayer M. I.,
AlAwadhi N.,
Khamis A.,
Murad M.,
Bond C.,
Hamdan I. Y.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
biotechnology and bioengineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.136
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1097-0290
pISSN - 0006-3592
DOI - 10.1002/bit.260260911
Subject(s) - thermophile , methanol , composition (language) , biomass (ecology) , food science , chemistry , moisture , pulp and paper industry , biochemistry , biology , organic chemistry , agronomy , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , enzyme
The rationale behind KISR's involvement in SCP is explained and emphasis towards the use of aerobic thermophilic/thermotolerant methanol‐utilizing bacterial cultures is stressed. An attempt is made to correlate different pilot plant harvesting procedures for biomass recovery with product quality. The latter is expressed as crude and true protein content, moisture and ash content, mineral composition of the ash, and amino acids profiles. The most suitable harvesting procedures were found to be those using a mild heat–acid or acid–heat treatment. Both of these procedures gave high recovery efficiencies and suitable product nutrition.