Yeast biomass production from rest products for fish feed

Proper nutrition plays a key role in the growth of fish. However, limited supply of raw material for fish feed has posed problem for the ever-growing Aquaculture. Waste water from food industries (e.g. diaries and slaughterhouses) contains considerable amounts of proteins and fats to be used as fish...

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Autor principal: Khan, Fawad
Formato: Second cycle, A2E
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/3578/
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Sumario:Proper nutrition plays a key role in the growth of fish. However, limited supply of raw material for fish feed has posed problem for the ever-growing Aquaculture. Waste water from food industries (e.g. diaries and slaughterhouses) contains considerable amounts of proteins and fats to be used as fish feed. Similarly, glycerol which is a by-product in biodiesel production can be used as carbon source by yeast. Linseed oil can be useful as a source of fatty acids. In this study we investigate the potential of waste from paper and beer industries as a growth medium for yeast. We used two different concentrations of Glycerol and Linseed oil. Media was inoculated with yeast and cultured for 48 hours. To determine the growth of yeast, OD (Optical Density) was measured for each sample at three hours intervals. Our results show that waste from beer industry is very promising as compared to waste from paper industry for the growth of yeast. Moreover, all strains of yeast showed better growth when lower concentrations of glycerol and linseed oil were added to beer water as compared to high concentrations.