An economical approach for D -lactic acid production utilizing unpolished ricefrom aging paddy as major nutrient source Zhengdong Lu, Mingbo Lu, Feng He, Longjiang Yu* Institute of Resou
Trang 1An economical approach for D -lactic acid production utilizing unpolished rice
from aging paddy as major nutrient source
Zhengdong Lu, Mingbo Lu, Feng He, Longjiang Yu*
Institute of Resource Biology and Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 5 July 2008
Received in revised form 9 October 2008
Accepted 12 October 2008
Available online 21 November 2008
Keywords:
D -Lactic acid
Unpolished rice
Aging paddy
Wheat bran powder
Production-cost
a b s t r a c t
In order to reduce the raw material cost ofD-lactic acid fermentation, the unpolished rice from aging paddy was used as major nutrient source in this study The unpolished rice saccharificate, wheat bran powder and yeast extract were employed as carbon source, nitrogen source and growth factors, respec-tively Response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to optimize the dosages of medium composi-tions As a result, when the fermentation was carried out under the optimal conditions for wheat bran powder (29.10 g/l) and yeast extract (2.50 g/l), theD-lactic acid yield reached 731.50 g/kg unpolished rice with a volumetric production rate of 1.50 g/(l h) In comparison with fresh corn and polished rice, theD -lactic acid yield increased by 5.79% and 8.71%, and the raw material cost decreased by 65% and 52%, respectively, when the unpolished rice was used as a major nutrient source These results might provide
a reference for the industrial production ofD-lactic acid
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1 Introduction
Lactic acid (LA), a useful organic acid, is widely used in the food,
pharmaceutical, leather and textile industries Its most promising
application is being used as a major raw material for the
manufac-ture of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) As a kind of biodegradable polymer,
PLA might become a potential environmentally friendly substitute
of non-biodegradable plastics derived from petrochemicals (
Aker-berg and Zacchi, 2000) There are three types of lactic acid:
opti-cally active L-lactic acid,D-lactic acid and racemicDL-lactic acid
Recently, it was reported that an equimolar blend of poly(L-lactic
acid) and poly(D-lactic acid) generated a racemic crystal called
ste-reo-complex poly(lactic acid) which was more heat-resistant than
the poly(L-lactic acid) homo-polymer due to the high melting
tem-perature (Sawai et al., 2007) This finding madeD-lactic acid more
and more important
D-Lactic acid was primarily produced from a variety of
feed-stocks by fermentation using lactic acid bacteria (Hofvendahl and
Hahn-Hägerdal, 2000; Fukushima et al., 2004) A major concern
inD-lactic acid fermentation was to reduce the cost of raw
materi-als which accounted for more than 34% of total production-cost
(Akerberg and Zacchi, 2000) Utilization of cheap carbon sources
was considered as an effective approach Though many starchy
materials from agriculture such as corn, rice and rice starch were
used as carbon sources in many studies, the media costs were still
high in relation to synthetic media (Fukushima et al., 2004; Lee,
2007) The utilization of cellulosic wastes such as cardboard and corn cobs as substrates for lactic acid fermentation by simulta-neous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) was considered a promising approach (Rivas et al., 2004) However, there were many technical problems, for instance, the enzymes of cellulose hydroly-sis were inhibited by the intermediate product (cellobiose), and the lactic acid biosynthesis was inhibited by the final product (lactic acid) Many investigations had been carried out to relieve the inhi-bitions, for example, in situ product removal technology was ap-plied during the SSF process, which need large electric energy or high-level equipment (Li et al., 2004; Tanaka et al., 2006; Romani
et al., 2008) Therefore, for the industrial production of D-lactic acid, it was quite necessary to provide cheap carbon sources which could be easily utilized by lactic acid bacteria, and to obtain the optimal conditions of fermentation with higher yield and produc-tion rate
Unpolished rice is a type of rice that had paddy hull removed during the processing but not the bran layer Besides abundant starch, unpolished rice also contains greater amounts of dietary fi-bers, proteins, vitamins and minerals than polished rice (Das et al.,
2008) Unpolished rice manufactured from fresh paddy is a healthy food In China, an agricultural country that produces paddy in large volumes, a considerable amount of aging paddy is rejected for use
as foodstuff, due to its less tasty flavor in comparison to fresh
pad-dy This aging paddy is mostly used in the feedstuff industry, which does not bring equivalent profit (Heerink et al., 2007; Liang et al.,
2008) Thus, this cheap farm product containing abundant nutri-ents was used as a major nutrient source forD-lactic acid produc-tion in this study
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Trang 2The objectives of this study were as follows: (i) to produceD
-lactic acid by Lactobacillus delbrueckii HG 106 utilizing unpolished
rice from aging paddy, and obtain the unpolished rice dregs, a
byproduct ofD-lactic acid production; (ii) to screen out an
inexpen-sive nitrogen source from agricultural waste, and optimize the
dos-age of medium compositions by response surface methodology
(RSM) and (iii) to compare fermentative effect using the different
raw materials such as unpolished rice, fresh corn and polished rice
2 Methods
2.1 Samples of unpolished rice, polished rice and corn
The samples of aging paddy and fresh paddy were harvested
from Hubei Province of China in August 2004 and July 2007,
respectively The unpolished rice was manufactured from the aging
paddy by removing the paddy hull The polished rice was
manufac-tured from the fresh paddy by removing the paddy hull and bran
layer The sample of fresh corn was harvested from Hebei Province
of China in October 2007
2.2 Microorganism, culture media and culture conditions
Lactobacillus delbrueckii HG 106, a highly optical purityD-lactic
acid producing strain (content ofD-form lactic acid is more than
97.5%) used in this study, was provided by Guangshui Chemical
Company of Hubei Province of China MRS medium was used as
the culture medium of seed activation The media used for
screen-ing nitrogen sources contained 2 g/l of yeast extract and 20 g/l of
nitrogen sources such as corn steep liquor, soybean meal powder,
wheat bran powder, and the treated products Here, the nitrogen
sources were limited at a lower level, namely the nitrogen sources
were not superfluous The media used for studying the effect of
yeast extract on D-lactic acid fermentation contained 20 g/l of
wheat bran powder, 0, 2 and 4 g/l of yeast extract, respectively
Other fermentation media’s compositions were shown further
The initial reducing sugar concentrations of unpolished rice
sac-charificate were controlled at 100 g/l in all fermentations All the
media were sterilized at 121 °C for 15 min Flask experiments were
carried out in 250 ml Erlenmeyer flasks containing 100 ml of
med-ium at 45 °C, with the shaking speed 150 rpm A 5 l fermentor
(Bio-stat Er B Braun) was employed for the ampliative fermentation
with an initial culture volume of 3 l The agitation speed and
cul-ture temperacul-ture were controlled at 150 rpm and 45 °C,
respec-tively The culture pH of shaking flask and fermentor were
automatically controlled by the addition of 5% (w/v) sterilized
CaCO3 before fermentations Five percent (v/v) activated
inocu-lums incubated in MRS medium were used in all fermentations
2.3 Preparation of the hydrolysate of wheat bran and soybean meal
The wheat bran and soybean meal were comminuted into
pow-der and sieved through a screen with 0.074 mm aperture Then, the
powder was added into water in a ratio of 3:10 (w/w) After the
ini-tial pH was regulated to 1.0 by the addition of 3 M H2SO4 and
hydrolyzed at 121 °C for 20 min, the slurry was cooled to room
temperature and filtered (Gao et al., 2007) The filtrates were
read-justed to pH 7.0 as nitrogen sources ofD-lactic acid production
2.4 Preparation of the unpolished rice saccharificate and rice dregs
The unpolished rice was comminuted into powder and sieved
through a screen with 0.074 mm aperture Then, the rice powder
was mixed with tap water in a ratio of 1:2 (w/w) CaCl2was added
into the slurry with a final concentration of 0.1 M After the pH of
the rice slurry was adjusted to 6.0, thea-amylase (20,000 U/ml, Wuxi Jieneng Bioengineering Company, China) was added into the rice slurry with a dosage of 12 U/g unpolished rice The starch liquefaction was carried out at 95 °C for 60 min When the starch liquefaction was completed, the solution was cooled to below
60 °C After the pH of this hydrolysate was readjusted to 4.5, the amyloglucosidase (100,000 U/ml, Wuxi Jieneng Bioengineering Company, China) was added into the hydrolysate with a dosage
of 120 U/g unpolished rice The saccharification was carried out
at 60 °C for 32 h When the unpolished rice hydrolysate was en-tirely transformed into saccharificate, the mixture was heated at
100 °C for 10 min to make the enzymes inactivated After the mix-ture was cooled to room temperamix-ture, the rice dregs were removed from the mixture by centrifugation at 8000g for 10 min (Yun et al.,
2004) Finally, the pH of the unpolished rice saccharificate was ad-justed to 7.0 and the reducing sugar concentration was adad-justed to
100 g/l This unpolished rice saccharificate was used as the carbon source forD-lactic acid fermentation
2.5 Optimization of the dosage of wheat bran powder and yeast extract
Response surface methodology (RSM) and central composite design (CCD) were applied to optimize the dosage of fermentation medium compositions (Chauhan et al., 2006; John et al., 2007) The software Design-Expert 7.0.0 (Stat-Ease Inc., USA) was used for experimental design, data analysis and quadratic model building For statistical calculation, independent variables were coded as
where xirepresents the coded values for Xi(i = 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.), Xiis the experimental value of variable, X0is the mid-point of Xi, and
DXiis the step change in Xi For predicting the optimal point, a second-order polynomial equation was fitted to correlate the relationship between variables and response The equation is
y ¼ b0þXk
i¼1
bixiþXk i¼1
biix2
i þXk i
Xk j
where y is predicted response, xiand xj(i 6 j) are coded variables, b0,
bi, bii, bijare regression coefficients calculated from the experimen-tal data by second-order multiple regression, and k is the number of factors
The experimental data were statistically analyzed using the Fischer’s statistical test for analysis of variance (ANOVA) The fitted polynomial equation was then expressed in the form of three-dimensional surface plots to illustrate the relationship between the responses and the experimental levels of each of the variables utilized in this study
2.6 Analytical methods The samples of unpolished rice, saccharificate and dregs were analyzed after pre-treatment (Das et al., 2008) The amount of reducing sugar was determined by the 3,5 dinitro salicylic acid method (Miller, 1959) The amino acids were measured by amino acid analyzer (Beckman-6300) referring to GB/T 5009.124-2003
of China The amount of vitamins was determined by HPLC system using a C18 column with guard column holder (Kromasil 5lm
250 4.6 mm, Agilent 1200) (Das et al., 2008) The color of fer-mentation broth was measured by spectrophotometer at an absor-bency of 420 nm (OD420) Unit price (RMB/kg) of raw material used
in this study was present price in China Incubation period was de-fined as the time (h) that the concentration ofD-lactic acid reached the maximum during the process of the fermentation
Trang 3The fermentation broths were sampled once every 2 h during
the process of the fermentation The samples were heated
immedi-ately at 100 °C for 10 min to make lactic acid bacteria inactivated
and treated with 1 M H2SO4 to release D-lactic acid which was
formed as calcium lactate with the buffering agent, CaCO3 Then,
the treated samples were centrifuged at 8000g for 10 min and
the supernatants were filtered through a 0.45lm cellulose acetate
filter The filtrates were diluted to the required concentration forD
-lactic acid and reducing sugar analysis TheD-lactic acid
concentra-tion (g/l) was estimated by colorimetric assay method (Taylor,
1996) For the calculation ofD-lactic acid yield, the following
equa-tion was introduced:
W ¼ðL1 L0ÞY
where W is theD-lactic acid yield (g/kg unpolished rice), L1is the
to-talD-lactic acid concentration (g/l), L0is theD-lactic acid
concentra-tion (g/l) transformed from the reducing sugar of the wheat bran
powder, Y is the reducing sugar yield (g/kg) of the unpolished rice,
S1is the total reducing sugar concentration (g/l) and S0is the
reduc-ing sugar concentration (g/l) released from the wheat bran powder
All experimental values were means of three replicates ±
stan-dard deviation, (p < 0.05)
3 Results and discussion
3.1 Results of preparation of unpolished rice saccharificate and dregs
Reducing sugar was the primary composition of the unpolished
rice saccharificate The yields of reducing sugar and rice dregs
reached 810.26 ± 24.21 g/kg unpolished rice and 185.67 ± 5.87 g/
kg unpolished rice, respectively The unpolished rice was rich in
essential amino acids and B-vitamins (Table 1) It was found that
the contents of amino acids and B-vitamins of the unpolished rice
were generally more than that of the corn It was reported that
amino acids and B-vitamins were essential to the growth of lactic acid bacteria (Nancib et al., 2005) However, the contents of various nutrients of the rice dregs were more than that of the saccharifi-cate It was probably because that many nutrients were enwrapped
in the rice cellulose The unpolished rice was proved nutritionally better than the polished rice Mechanical milling and removal of bran layers resulted in a large loss of amino acids, vitamins, pro-teins, and mineral elements (Das et al., 2008) The rice dregs could
be processed into rice proteins and amino acids which had been used as additives in the health food and feedstuff industry and showing good development prospect (Chandi and Sogi, 2007) As
a byproduct of theD-lactic acid production, the added value of unpolished rice dregs was estimated as 10% approximately 3.2 Screening of inexpensive and light-colored nitrogen source Although the highestD-lactic acid concentration was achieved, the incubation period was longer than the others, and the unit price was the highest, when yeast extract was used as a nitrogen source Thus, yeast extract was an uneconomical material when
it was used in a large quantity inD-lactic acid production (Table
2) Lower OD420 implies lower cost of the fermentation broth decoloration Obviously, though the D-lactic acid concentration and production rate were not the highest, the OD420of the fermen-tation broth and unit price of raw material were the lowest when the wheat bran powder was used as a nitrogen source, which ac-corded with the aims of this study
Meanwhile, the effect of different treated products of the wheat bran and soybean meal onD-lactic acid production was investi-gated It was discovered that the crude wheat bran and crude soy-bean meal were difficult to be used as nitrogen sources forD-lactic acid fermentations This was probably because that the nutrients were enwrapped in cellulose and were difficult to be utilized by lactic acid bacteria Although the highest production rate was ob-tained, theD-lactic acid concentration was low and the unit price
Table 1
Content of some essential amino acids (g/100 g) and B-vitamins (mg/100 g) in the corn, unpolished rice, saccharificate and dregs.
Nutrient components Corn Unpolished rice Unpolished rice saccharificate Unpolished rice dregs Leucine 1.02 ± 0.25 0.72 ± 0.09 0.17 ± 0.03 0.52 ± 0.08
Isoleucine 0.22 ± 0.03 0.34 ± 0.04 0.11 ± 0.03 0.21 ± 0.03
Methionine 0.18 ± 0.02 0.21 ± 0.03 0.12 ± 0.03 0.78 ± 0.08
Phenylalanine 0.37 ± 0.04 0.42 ± 0.06 0.12 ± 0.03 0.25 ± 0.04
Valine 0.41 ± 0.06 0.52 ± 0.06 0.15 ± 0.04 0.35 ± 0.05
Threonine 0.28 ± 0.04 0.35 ± 0.04 0.11 ± 0.03 0.22 ± 0.04
Lysine 0.32 ± 0.05 0.38 ± 0.04 0.12 ± 0.03 0.23 ± 0.04
Histidine 0.23 ± 0.03 0.21 ± 0.03 0.11 ± 0.03 0.07 ± 0.01
Niacin 1.36 ± 0.15 1.65 ± 0.13 0.71 ± 0.08 0.94 ± 0.09
Pyridoxine 0.98 ± 0.12 1.35 ± 0.23 0.58 ± 0.06 0.75 ± 0.08
Thiamine 0.12 ± 0.03 0.18 ± 0.03 0.06 ± 0.01 0.09 ± 0.01
Riboflavin 0.04 ± 0.01 0.06 ± 0.01 0.02 ± 0.01 0.03 ± 0.01
Table 2
Comparison of D -lactic acid fermentations with different nitrogen sources and the treated products Compositions of the media (g/l): reducing sugar of the unpolished rice saccharificate, 100; yeast extract, 2 and different nitrogen sources, 20.
Nitrogen sources Evaluated items
D -Lactic acid concentration (g/l) Incubation periods (h) OD 420 of fermentation broth Unit price of raw material (RMB/kg) Yeast extract 80.24 ± 2.56 70 0.41 ± 0.05 12.1
Corn steep liquor 74.70 ± 2.48 58 1.75 ± 0.09 4.5
Soybean meal powder 78.35 ± 2.36 56 0.39 ± 0.04 4.7
Wheat bran powder 76.55 ± 2.28 56 0.38 ± 0.04 1.6
Soybean meal hydrolysate 73.68 ± 2.46 52 0.47 ± 0.05 5.3
Wheat bran hydrolysate 71.17 ± 2.31 52 0.45 ± 0.04 2.1
Crude soybean meal 46.58 ± 1.63 66 0.39 ± 0.05 4.4
Trang 4was high when soybean meal hydrolysate was used as a nitrogen
source It was also found that D-lactic acid concentration were
slightly lower than that of wheat bran powder and soybean meal
powder when the hydrolysate of wheat bran and soybean meal
were used as nitrogen sources The reason might be that important
nutritional components were destroyed or removed inadvertently
in the severe acid-hydrolysis and separation steps for its
produc-tion (Kwon et al., 2000; Gao et al., 2007) On the contrary,
acid-hydrolysis process aggravated the color of fermentation broth
and increased the production-costs
As a result, the wheat bran powder, an inexpensive and
light-colored agricultural waste was screened out and used as the
nitro-gen source for D-lactic acid production, through comprehensive
analysis and comparison
After incubated 60 h, 76.55 ± 2.28 g/l ofD-lactic acid
concentra-tion was obtained when 20 g/l of wheat bran powder was used as
the major nitrogen source, while the sugar still maintained at the
high concentration of 16.20 ± 1.20 g/l, which indicated that the
maximumD-lactic acid concentration could not be obtained only
when the unpolished rice saccharificate and wheat bran powder
were employed as nutrients Therefore, it was possible that some
other nutrients, especially growth factors must be added into the
fermentation medium to increase the yield of D-lactic acid and
transforming ratio of sugar into acid
3.3 Supplement of yeast extract provided necessary growth factors
Yeast extract was demonstrated to be an excellent nutrient for
most lactic acid bacteria according to previous reports (Nancib
et al., 2005) TheD-lactic acid concentration increased significantly
with increasing initial yeast extract concentration, but in a
non-proportional manner (Fig 1) As it was expected,D-lactic acid
con-centration increased greatly when a small quantity of yeast extract
was supplied The final D-lactic acid concentration was only
42.30 ± 2.50 g/l because of the lack of yeast extract in the medium,
which implied that the yeast extract was essential forD-lactic acid
fermentation by Lactobacillus delbrueckii HG 106 even with a low
dosage
The importance of yeast extract for lactic acid bacteria was
re-ported by some researchers Some researchers speculated that
the main contribution of yeast extract in the medium was
supply-ing purine, pyrimidine and B-vitamins for lactic acid bacteria
(Nancib et al., 2005)
Yeast extract was too expensive (accounted for about 38% of
to-tal medium cost) to hinder its use in large quantities in lactic acid
production (Altaf et al., 2007) If yeast extract was replaced by other cheap raw materials, there was either decrease in lactic acid production or increase in incubation period (Altaf et al., 2006; Gao
et al., 2007) Therefore, the supplementation of small amount of yeast extract was necessary to avoid a limitation of essential growth factors for Lactobacillus delbrueckii HG 106 However, it was also necessary to optimize the dosage of yeast extract in the fermentation medium to reduce the material cost
3.4 Optimization of the dosage of wheat bran powder and yeast extract by RSM
The wheat bran powder and yeast extract were used as nitrogen source and growth factors of D-lactic acid production based on above experiments Central composite design (CCD) was applied
to find their appropriate dosage and predict maximumD-lactic acid concentration The variables and responses ofD-lactic acid produc-tion were listed inTable 3
Analysis of variance for the quadratic model was calculated from the response obtained for 13 runs (Table 4) The ANOVA showed that The model F-value of 48.45 implied the model was significant Values of ‘‘p > F” <0.05 indicated model terms were sig-nificant In this case, X1, X2, X1X2, X2and X2were significant model terms which indicated that the change of concentrations of wheat bran powder and yeast extract influencedD-lactic acid production directly The F-value of X1X2term is 20.68, which indicated that interaction of wheat bran powder and yeast extract was significant
By ANOVA, the coefficient of determination (R2) of the regres-sion model was 0.9719, which implied that 97.19% of the variation
in the response could be explained by the model The R2of 0.9719 was in reasonable agreement with the adjusted R2of 0.9519, which indicated a good agreement between the experimental values and the predicted values ofD-lactic acid production
The experimental results of the CCD were fitted with the coded second-order polynomial function for the estimation of D-lactic acid production:
Y ¼ 88:64 þ 3:08X1þ 3:14X2 2:02X1X2 1:18X2 1:41X2 ð4Þ
where Y is the response,D-lactic acid concentration, X1and X2are the concentrations of wheat bran powder and yeast extract, respectively
The effect of wheat bran powder, yeast extract and their interactions on D-lactic acid concentration was shown in Fig 2
It was evident that D-lactic acid production increased with increasing wheat bran powder concentration A similar trend was observed in yeast extract However, the two variables showed a synergistic effect on D-lactic acid production, and fur-ther increase ofD-lactic acid concentration could not be achieved when the two variables increased unceasingly The surface plots
of yield indicated that the D-lactic acid concentration could not exceed 92.00 g/l
Using the desirability function for point prediction of the Design Expert 7.0.0 software, the optimal conditions for wheat bran pow-der (29.10 g/l) and yeast extract (2.50 g/l) were obtained The pre-dicted maximum response of D-lactic acid concentration was 90.10 g/l
Validation of the model was carried out in 250 ml Erlen-meyer flasks under the optimal conditions to confirm the pre-dicted response As a result, the D-lactic acid concentration reached 91.20 ± 3.34 g/l which neared to the foregoing pre-dicted value of 90.10 g/l and also neared to the maximum D -lactic acid concentration of 91.10 g/l in CCD experiment (Table
3, run 4) while the dosages of raw materials were obviously decreased
Fig 1 Effect of different initial concentrations of yeast extract on D -lactic acid
Trang 53.5 Comparison of fermentations using unpolished rice, fresh corn and
polished rice as major nutrient sources
D-Lactic acid fermentations with different media were carried
out in a 5 l fermentor under the aforementioned optimal
condi-tions (Fig 3) As a result, the -lactic acid concentration reached
90.80 ± 3.20 g/l, and incubation period was <60 h when the unpol-ished rice saccharificate uncontaining rice dregs was used as a ma-jor nutrient source (Fig 3a) There was no significant difference on
D-lactic acid production when using unpolished rice saccharificate
in which the unpolished rice dregs were contained or not As a re-sult, theD-lactic acid yield reached 731.50 g /kg unpolished rice with a volumetric production rate of 1.50 g/(l h), when unpol-ished rice saccharificate was used as major nutrient source The yield was higher about 5.79% and 8.71% than that of fresh corn and polished rice, respectively The OD420of fermentation broth was lower than that of fresh corn saccharificate when unpolished rice saccharificate was used in the medium, which implied that the cost of decoloration would be lower in the downstream steps (Fig 3b) Besides, the unit price of unpolished rice was nearly one half of that of the fresh corn and polished rice It was estimated that the raw material cost ofD-lactic acid production decreased by 65% and 52%, respectively, when the unpolished rice was used as major nutrient source These values were related to increase inD -lactic acid yield
When the unpolished rice was used as a major nutrient, theD -lactic acid yield increased and material cost reduced, compared with that of in former researches using fresh corn and polished rice
as carbon sources (Fukushima et al., 2004; Oh et al., 2005; Lee,
2007) Thus, in comparison with fresh corn, unpolished rice showed several advantages, because unpolished rice was rich in nutrition and showed little color, which influenced the yield and cost of -lactic acid production directly
Table 3
Central composite design for optimization of two variables in mathematically
predicted and experimental values for D -lactic acid production.
Run X 1 Wheat bran
powder (g/l)
X 2 Yeast extract (g/l)
Y: D -lactic acid (g/l) Experimental values
Predicted values
9 a
10 a
11 a
a
Centre point replicate runs: 9–13 Experimental values were means of three
replicates.
Table 4
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) for the fitted quadratic polynomial model.
Source Degree of
freedom
Sum of square
Mean square
F-value p-Value
p > F Model 5 192.16 38.43 48.45 <0.0001
X 1 1 75.82 75.82 95.58 <0.0001
X 2 1 79.10 79.10 99.72 <0.0001
X 1 X 2 1 16.40 16.40 20.68 0.0026
X 2 1 9.73 9.73 12.26 0.0100
X 2 1 13.78 13.78 17.37 0.0042
Residual 7 5.55 0.79
Lack of fit 3 4.36 1.45 4.88 0.08
Pure error 4 1.19 0.30
Cor total 12 197.71
C.V.% = 1.10 R 2
= 0.9719 Adj R 2
= 0.9519
Fig 2 Response surface and contour plots showing the interaction of wheat bran
powder and yeast extract on D -lactic acid production.
Fig 3 Comparison of D -lactic acid fermentations with different major nutrient sources Major nutrient sources: A, unpolished rice saccharificate uncontaining rice dregs; B, unpolished rice saccharificate containing rice dregs; C, fresh corn saccharificate uncontaining corn dregs and D, fresh polished rice saccharificate uncontaining rice dregs.
Trang 64 Conclusion
The unpolished rice provided not only carbon source but also
other important nutrients such as amino acids and B-vitamins
The wheat bran powder was an inexpensive and light-colored
nitrogen source The supplement of a small quantity of yeast
ex-tract provided growth factors and increased theD-lactic acid yield
significantly Their optimal concentrations to be added were
suc-cessfully established by applying a statistical experimental tool
such as RSM TheD-lactic acid yield increased a lot and raw
mate-rial cost decreased remarkably compared with that of fresh corn
and polished rice Thus, the unpolished rice from aging paddy
was a cheap and excellent nutrient source for D-lactic acid
production
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by Grants from the National High
Technology Research and Development Key Program of China
(Pro-ject No 2008AA10Z339) and the Key Sci-Tech Pro(Pro-ject of Hubei
Province of China (Project No 2006AA201C47)
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