An integrated biorefinery process: Stepwise extraction of fucoxanthin, eicosapentaenoic acid and chrysolaminarin from the same Phaeodactylum tricornutum biomass

作者：Zhang, Wenyuan^*; Wang, Feifei; Gao, Baoyan; Huang, Luodong; Zhang, Chengwu

来源：Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts, 2018, 32: 193-200.

DOI：10.1016/j.algal.2018.04.002

• Phaeodactylum tricornutum
• Stepwise extraction
• Fucoxanthin
• Eicosapentaenoic acid
• Chrysolaminarin

The cultivation of microalgae is a high energy consumption process, which consumes a large amount of water, nutrients, electric energy and manpower. Thus, comprehensive utilization of algal biomass is a key to achieving cost-effective industrial production of bioproducts. In this paper, an integrated biorefinery process was conducted on Phaeodactylum tricornutum biomass to produce three valuable bioactive compounds via stepwise extraction using different solvent systems. Fucoxanthin, highly concentrated eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and chrysolaminarin were successively purified, concentrated, and characterized from P. tricornutum with a series of separation and identification technologies, and the yield (the weight of the purified compounds/the absolute weight in algal biomass, %) of these active compounds were 34.03 +/- 0.72%, 23.00 +/- 0.29%, and 43.54 +/- 0.91%, respectively. Moreover, the fucoxanthin extraction conditions were also optimized, and ethanol and microwave-assisted treatments of 1 min provided the best fucoxanthin yield. In conclusion, this study suggested an effective biorefinery process for the production of fucoxanthin, EPA, and chrysolaminarin from the same P. tricornutum biomass.

• 出版日期2018-6
• 单位暨南大学