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Cassava flour wastewater as a substrate for biosurfactant production

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Five cassava flour wastewater (manipueira) preparations were tested as culture media for biosurfactant production by a wild-type Bacillus sp. isolate. No-solids (F), no-solids diluted (F/2), natural (I), natural diluted (I/2), and decanted (IPS) were the tested manipueira media. The microorganism was able to grow and to produce biosurfactant on all manipueira preparations. The media whose solids were removed (F and F/2) showed better results than preparations with the presence of solids (I, I/2, and IPS). No-solids medium (F) showed a surface tension of 26,59 mN/m and reciprocal of critical micelle concentration of over 100 and was selected as a potential substrate for biosurfactant production.

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  1. Laboratório de Bioquímica, Departanento de Ciéncia de Alinentos, Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos, NICAMP, Rua Monteiro, Lobato, 80 Cx. Postal 6121, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil

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Nitschke, M., Pastore, G.M. Cassava flour wastewater as a substrate for biosurfactant production. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 106, 295–301 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1385/ABAB:106:1-3:295

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