Assessment of the Morphological, Biochemical, and Kinetic Properties for Candida rugosa Lipase Immobilized on Hydrous Niobium Oxide to Be Used in the Biodiesel Synthesis

Table 4

Comparison of the catalytic properties of the Candida rugosa lipase immobilized in different inorganic supports.

Property	Support
	CPS^a	Silica^b (sol-gel)	ZrP^c	Nb2O5
Activity recovered (%)	48	1.34	60	47.5*
Hydrolytic activity (U/mg)	119	4.98	163	124*
Esterification Activity (μM/g·min)	154	136	103	120*
Operational stability in organic medium (t1/2 at 37°C, h)	417	132	412	406
References	[32]	[33]	[24]	This work

^a CPS: Controlled pore silica.
^bencapsulated lipase in hydrophobic matrix obtained by sol-gel process using as precursor MTMS (methyltrimethoxysilane).
^cZrP: zirconium phosphate.
*results previously reported [16].