Marisa Raita

TL;DR: In this article, a thermomyces lanuginosus lipase on Fe3O4 was studied using different covalent linkage designs, which showed high operational stability and could be simply separated by magnetization and recycled for at least 5 consecutive batches with > 80% activity remaining, suggesting its potential for application in biocatalytic biodiesel synthesis.

TL;DR: A promising approach for biodiesel synthesis with microcrystalline lipase is shown which could be further developed for cost-efficient industrial production of biodiesel.

TL;DR: In this paper, a ternary solvent mixture comprising methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK), ethanol, and water in the presence of H2SO4 was used to separate high-purity lignin.

TL;DR: The glycine-based microcrystalline lipase is a promising alternative economical biocatalyst for biodiesel production from inexpensive feedstocks with high free fatty acid contents and showed high operational stability with no significant loss in product yield after 8 consecutive batch cycles.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius TM242, an engineered thermophilic ethanologen capable of utilising short-chain oligosaccharides, to produce ethanol from a mannose oligomer without mannosidase supplementation, with high ethanol conversion efficiency.