Abstract
Lactic acid is one of the essential platform chemicals, and despite the availability of a range of downstream processes, its effective recovery is still elusive. A phase partitioning process using n-butanol and a chaotropic salt ammonium sulphate was developed to recover lactic acid from the fermentation broth of Lactobacillus pentosus SKL-18. During the optimization of various process parameters, the extraction medium's pH was found to be critical, with 2.5 being the best. The optimized process resulted in a lactic acid yield of 86% and found it to be 93% pure. The purity and characteristics of lactic acid were confirmed by FTIR and NMR spectra. This solvent-based extraction procedure is an economical and straightforward downstream process for purifying lactic acid produced from agro- and bakery-residues. The pure lactic acid can further be used for enzymatic synthesis of high value-added product PLA, a biodegradable and biocompatible plastics.
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