TABLE 5.
Fatty acid methyl esters of the biodiesel produced from S. obliquus grown under various conditions
| Component | Fatty acid methyl ester contenta (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | PL | MSST | FP | MSST+PL | FP+PL | PLb | MSST+PLb | FP+PLb | |
| Palmitic acid | 38.8 | 45.7 | 50.3 | 61.4 | 44.9 | 47.4 | 58.5 | 59.3 | 62.8 |
| Oleic acid | 35.4 | 33.9 | 32.4 | 30.4 | 34.2 | 32.5 | 28.7 | 29.7 | 27.0 |
| Linoleic acid | 10.8 | 9.8 | 7.2 | 1.7 | 9.5 | 9.2 | 4.6 | 3.1 | 2.7 |
| Linolenic acid | 15.0 | 10.6 | 10.1 | 6.5 | 11.4 | 10.9 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 7.5 |
a
Values represent the average results from three independent determinations.
b
Values represent growth under optimized conditions.