The alginate fermentation strain Pantoea sp. F16-PCAi-T3P21 and ethanol production

ABSTRACT

Bio-ethanol production from algae is a promising way to help solve the energy problem. Alginate is a major component of algae, but it cannot be utilized by existing ethanol fermentation microorganisms. In order to improve the utilization rate of brown algae, high alginate fermentation strains should be obtained. In this research, strains for algae fermentation were got from several experiments. The ethanol yield of strain A was the highest, which was 0.095 g/g (ethanol to alginate). The identification of strain A was carried out and it was 99% identical to Pantoea sp. F16-PCAi-T3P21. Fermentation experiments with different substrates were carried out, such as laminaran, mannitol, L. japonica and acid hydrolysate of L. japonica, and the ethanol yield rate of L. japonica acid hydrolysate was the highest, which reached 0.17 g/g ethanol to L. japonica. It showed that strain A can converse alginate to ethanol in a relatively high yield rate, and might be a promising strain with L. japonica as the substrate, we believe more research should be carried out on this strain.

KEYWORDS:

• Acid hydrolysate
• alginate fermentation strains
• ethanol production
• L. japonica
• Pantoea sp.F16-PCAi-T3P21

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Funding

This work was supported by Colleges and universities in Hebei province science and technology research project (Education Science Research Program of Hebei Provincial Department Z2012068); and Independent research program of young teachers in Yanshan Universi(ty 14LGA018).