Whey Case Study

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REVIEW OF LITERATURE
WHEY:-
Whey, a by-product of the dairy industry, is a fluid obtained by sorting out the coagulum from whole milk, cream or skim milk (Marwaha et al., 1988). For year, whey was thought to be insignificant and was either used as an animal feed or it was disposed of as waste (Tsakali, E. et al.2010). Depending upon the variety of the cheese produced (e.g. hard or semi-hard), the average yield is 1kg from 10L of milk, where the balance (9L) is whey. Hence, it is apparent that daily production of whey can amount up to several millions of litres in large cheese plants. The world whey production is over 160 million tons per year (estimated as 9-fold of the cheese production), showing a 1–2% annual growth rate (Guimaraes et al., 2010). Today, the annual global increase of whey production is equivalent to 2%, which …show more content…

Fig 1. Possibilities of whey utilization (Bozanic et al., 2014)
Whey was utilized industrially as a Medium Supplement for biphasic growth and bacteriocin production by probiotic Lactobacillus casei LA-1(Kumar et al., 2012).

Bioethanol production from whey: Among the several microorganisms (e.g. Kluyveromyces lactis or K. marxianus, Candida pseudotropicalis) Kluyveromyces fragilis is the yeast of choice for most commercial plant producing ethanol from whey due to its capability of lactose utilization. However, Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the most popular yeast used for ethanol production due to its high ethanol yield and also tolerance to high ethanol concentration. In recent years, the ethanol produced is mostly used as fuels (92%), industrial solvents and chemicals (4%), and beverages (4%) (Logsdon, 2006). Cheese whey has been used by many investigators for production of ethanol because of its high carbohydrate content and availability ( ). In batch fermentation K. fragilis utilises more than 95% of the lactose of unconcentrated whey with a conversion efficiency of 80–85% of the theoretical value (Mawson, 1994).

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