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

Energies

Hideki Kanda¹  Peng Li²  Motonobu Goto¹  Hisao Makino² 

[1] Department of Chemical Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan; E-Mail:;Energy Engineering Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0196, Japan; E-Mails:

关键词: dimethyl ether;    Euglena gracilis;    lipid extraction;   

DOI  :  10.3390/en8010610

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

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.

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