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- Title
Advances in lactic acid production as medicinally valuable biochemical from lignocellulosic waste material: A brief review.
- Authors
Dey, Pinaki; Nandakumar, Sreeja; Vaitheswari, R.; Sowmya, A.
- Abstract
Due to the presence of both hydroxyl group and carboxyl group, lactic acid can participate in wide variety of chemical reaction. As a result, it is used in diverse industrial applications. Among all, it is having major application in pharmaceutical and drug manufacturing industries. Still now, fermentative production route of lactic acid is mostly preferred with comparison to chemical synthesis route and expensive food grade materials, pure substrates have been mainly encouraged for such production. Hence, there is a chance to improve the lactic acid production and reduce the manufacturing cost by selecting a waste material. Among different types of wastes, agricultural and municipal lignocellulosic waste materials have bigger prospect due to the presence of high amount of carbohydrate, lesser requirement of pre-treatment specifically to separate heavy metals. However, still, there is a need to improve the quality of lactic acid specifically for medical grade and reduce its production cost by selecting integrated processes, intensified downstream processing techniques.
- Subjects
LACTIC acid; WASTE products; CARBOXYL group; CHEMICAL reactions; DRUG factories; HYDROXYL group
- Publication
Drug Invention Today, 2019, Vol 12, Issue 6, p1254
- ISSN
0975-7619
- Publication type
Article