Decolorization of Distillery Spent Wash Using Biopolymer Synthesized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from Tannery Effluent

Table 2

Effect of various carbon sources on PHB production with standard deviation values.

Carbon source	Dry cell weight (g/L)	SD	Amount of PHB (g/L)	SD	PHB yield (%)	SD
Glucose	0.22	0.007	0.026	0.0007	11.82	0.049
Sucrose	0.23	0.01	0.049	0.0008	21.30	0.141
Fructose	1.32	0.0282	0.072	0.0021	5.45	0.219
Molasses	0.21	0.0131	0.147	0.0014	70.0	0.707
Control (YEM)	0.28	0.0141	0.060	0.0135	21.43	0.0636

SD: standard deviation.