Skip to main content
European Commission logo print header

THE PRODUCTION OF ENZYMES FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION BY SOLID-STATE FERMENTATION OF WASTES

Obiettivo

TO PRODUCE CELLULASES, PECTINASES, AMYLASES AND PROTEASES BY SOLID-STATE FERMENTATION OF WASTES USING RELEVANT FUNGAL STRAINS.

A - CURRENTLY AVAILABLE STRAINS OF TALAROMYCES EMERSONII, TRICHODERMA REESEI, TRICHODERMA KONINGLI, PENICILLIUM CAPSULATUM, PENICILLIUM PINOPHILUM, FUSARIUM SOLANI AND NEOCALLIMASTIX FRONTALIS WILL BE GROWN BY SOLID-STATE FERMENTATION ON A VARIETY OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST WASTES AND THE EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME SYSTEMS PRODUCED BY EACH STRAIN ON EACH SUBSTRATE IDENTIFIED.

B - NEW STRAINS OF MICROORGANISMS CAPABLE OF FERMENTING THE ABOVE WASTE WILL BE ISOLATED BY TRADITIONAL MEANS AND BY NEWER PROCEDURES INCLUDING PROTOPLAST FUSION OF GENETICALLY SIMILAR ORGANISMS (E.G. P PINOPHILUM AND P CAPSULATUM). THE COMPLEMENT OF ENZYMES PRODUCED BY SUCH STRAINS WILL BE IDENTIFIED AS ABOVE.

C - PROCEDURES FOR SOLID-STATE FERMENTATION OF WASTES BY SINGLE STRAINS OR BY APPROPRIATE COMBINATIONS OF STRAINS WILL BE OPTIMIZED AS WILL PROCEDURES FOR EXTRACTION OF THE ENZYMES. INDIVIDUAL ENZYMES AND COCKTAILS THEREOF WILL BE PREPARED.

D - BECAUSE OF THEIR HETEROGENEOUS NATURE, THE WASTES TO BE USED AS SUBSTRATES WILL, AS HAS BEEN SHOWN, INDUCE THE SYNTHESIS OF CELLULASES, HEMICELLULASES, PECTINASES AND PROTEASES. THE AMOUNTS OF EACH OF THESE ENZYMES PRODUCED WILL BE DETERMINED AND THEIR SUITABILITY WITH RESPECT TO INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION WILL BE EVALUATED. THIS WILL INVOLVE EXAMINATION OF SPECIFICITY, PH AND TEMPERATURE OPTIMA, STABILITY UNDER CONDITIONS OF APPLICATION, SENSITIVITY TO INHIBITION AND EASE OF RECOVERY ETC...
(E) APPROPRIATE PROCESSES DEVELOPED AT THE LABORATORY-SCALE WILL BE SCALED UP TO PILOT-PLANT LEVEL.

Argomento(i)

Data not available

Invito a presentare proposte

Data not available

Meccanismo di finanziamento

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinatore

ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Contributo UE
Nessun dato
Indirizzo
GREENBURN ROAD
AB21 9SB ABERDEEN
Regno Unito

Mostra sulla mappa

Collegamenti
Costo totale
Nessun dato