Friday, April 1, 2011

Fatty acid composition of microalgal oil

 
Fatty acid
Chain length: no. of double bonds
Oil composition (w/total lipid)
Palmitic acid
16:00
12–21
Palmitoleic acid
16:01
 55–57
Stearic acid
18:00
1–2
Oleic acid
18:01
58–60
Linoleic acid
18:02
4–20
Linolenic acid
18:03
14–30


(Meng et al., 2009).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you also know about the titer of algae oil?

Onedrop said...

Thanks for the question. please the the the post: "Algae oil content of some microorganisms"