Lactic acid from acid whey permeate in a membrane recycle bioreactor
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TL;DR
Whey permeate obtained by ultrafiltration of cottage cheese whey and supplemented with yeast extract was converted into lactic acid by Lactobacillus bulgaricus in a high-performance membrane bioreactor configured in the cell recycle mode and productivity was vastly superior to conventional batch fermentations.
Abstract
Whey permeate was obtained by ultrafiltration of cottage cheese whey and supplemented with yeast extract. The lactose in the permeate was converted into lactic acid by Lactobacillus bulgaricus in a high-performance membrane bioreactor configured in the cell recycle mode. At a cell concentration of 10 g l−1, optimum productivity of lactic acid was 35 g l−1 h−1. Increasing the cell concentration to 30 g l−1 enabled the use of a dilution rate of 1 h−1 with complete substrate utilization. At 60 g l−1, productivity was over 80 g l−1 h−1 with complete substrte utilization; this is vastly superior to conventional batch fermentations.