Food Science and Technology Department, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
She is currently a doctoral student at the Postgraduate Program in Food Science and Technology at the Federal University of Santa Maria. Served as a Collaborating Professor at the Polytechnic College of UFSM. He has experience in the field of industrial effluent treatment, with an emphasis on microalgal biotechnology. The most frequent terms in the context of its scientific and technological production are: processes and products based on microalgae, effluent deodorization, volatile organic compounds, microalgal biomolecules.
Research Article
Nitrogen Starvation of Assessment in the Production of Single Cell Oils and Biodiesel Quality in Heterotrophic Cultures of Cyanobacteria Phormidium autumnale
Author(s): Erika Cristina Francisco*, Eduardo Jacob-Lopes, Karem Rodrigues Vieira and Telma Teixeira Franco
The cyanobacteria have great potential for aquaculture industries, bioproducts, bioenergy and bioremediation, as in the reduction of ammonia, phosphorus and organic compounds. The manipulation of the medium and the modes of operation of the cultures are necessary to induce the production of biomass and bioproducts, such as lipids. The aim of the study was to evaluate the different nitrogen sources and their depletion in heterotrophic cultures of the cyanobacterium Phormidium autumnale aimed at obtaining high yields lipid. The heterotrophic cultures were carried out in bubble column bioreactor employing cassava starch as organic carbon source. In the first stage, were studied different nitrogen source under the C/N (carbon/nitrogen) ratios in the culture medium of 20, 40 and 60. In the second stage, selected to nitrogen source with the greatest potential for the production of lipids an.. View more»