A process for high yield and scaleable recovery of high purity eicosapentaenoic acid esters from microalgae and fish oil

Process Biochemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 951-969

  Belarbi, El Hassan ^a   Molina, Emilio ^a   Chisti, Yusuf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Argentated silica gel column chromatography; Eicosapentaenoic acid; Fish oil; Microalgae; Monodus subterraneus; Phaeodactylum tricornutum; Polyunsaturated fatty acids

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; FISH OIL; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID ETHYL ESTER;

ALGA; ARTICLE; ESTERIFICATION; EXTRACTION; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIPID ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; MONODUS SUBTERRANEUS; PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM;

EID: 0034050019     PISSN: 13595113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-9592(00)00126-6     Document Type: Article

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