Technologies for extracting lipids from oleaginous microorganisms for biodiesel production

Frontiers in Energy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 266-274

  Wang, Cunwen ^a   Chen, Lu ^a   Rakesh, Bajpai ^b   Qin, Yuanhang ^a   Lv, Renliang ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiesel; microwaveassisted extraction; oleaginous microorganisms; solvent extraction; supercritical fluid extraction (SFE); ultrasound assisted extraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866463510     PISSN: 20951701     EISSN: 20951698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11708-012-0193-y     Document Type: Review

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