Production and Use of Lipases in Bioenergy: A Review from the Feedstocks to Biodiesel Production

Table 8

Reported conditions for enzymatic transesterification of some fats and oils [51–53].

Alcohol	Lipase source	Feedstock	Solvent	Yield (%)
Methanol	C. antarctica	Rapeseed oil	Hexane	98
Methanol	C. antarctica	Cottonseed oil	—	92
Methanol	C. antarctica	Cottonseed oil	t-Butanol	97
Methanol	C. antarctica	Degummed Soybean oil	—	94
Methanol	T. lanuginosus	Soybean oil	—	90
Ethanol	P. cepacia	Tallow fat	—	95
Propanol	P. fluorescens	Sunflower oil	1,4-Dioxane	>95
2-Ethyl-1-hexanol	C. rugosa	Rapeseed oil	—	97
Methanol	P. cepacia	Palm kernel oil	—	15
Ethanol	P. cepacia	Palm kernel oil	—	72
Methanol	Mucor miehei	Soybean oil	Hexane	75
Ethanol	M. miehei	Soybean oil	Hexane	97
Methanol	M. miehei	Tallow fat	Hexane	95
Ethanol (96%)	M. miehei	Tallow fat	Hexane	98
Anhydrous ethanol	M. miehei	Tallow fat	Hexane	68
Propanol	M. miehei	Tallow fat	Hexane	24
Butanol	M. miehei	Tallow fat	Hexane	20
Propanol	C. antarctica	Tallow fat	Hexane	61
Butanol	C. antarctica	Tallow fat	Hexane	84