Lipid Extraction from Spirulina sp. and Schizochytrium sp. Using Supercritical CO with Methanol

Table 1

Fatty acid profile of extracted lipids from Spirulina sp. using three extraction methods.

Fatty acid Compounds	wt
	Soxhlet	SCCO2	SCCO2 + methanol
C10	7.48 ± 0.06	47.21 ± 0.24	16.51 ± 0.10
C14:1	1.79 ± 0.01	-	-
C16	44.02 ± 0.23	22.41 ± 0.14	37.15 ± 0.31
C16:1	2.22 ± 0.01	1.97 ± 0.01	2.66 ± 0.01
C18	1.25 ± 0.01	1.57 ± 0.01	1.23 ± 0.01
Cis C18:1	2.65 ± 0.03	2.85 ± 0.01	3.38 ± 0.01
Cis C18:2	18.10 ± 0.34	12.27 ± 0.06	17.67 ± 0.28
C18:3 n6	18.26 ± 0.12	9.43 ± 0.03	18.44 ± 0.09
C18:3 n3	4.23 ± 0.10	2.29 ± 0.01	2.96 ± 0.24
Total unsaturated fatty acids	47.25	28.81	45.11