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Full Screen- Title
- Dedication
- Declaration
- Certificate
- Certificate (Director)
- Acknowledgement
- Abstract
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- 1. General introduction
- 1.1.1. Biosurfactants
- 1.1.2. Rhamnolipid biosurfactants
- 1.1.3. Pulp and paper industry
- 1.2.1. Sources and types of biosurfactants
- 1.2.2. Low cost substrates or cost-effective carbon sources
- 1.2.3. Applications of rhamnolipids
- 1.2.4. Surfactants in pulp and paper industry
- 2. Materials and Methods
- 2.1. Screening and selection of cost-effective natural substrates for biosurfactant production under submerged fermentation
- 2.2. Screening and isolation of biosurfactant producing bacterial strains
- 2.3. Selection of the most efficient biosurfactant producing strain on selected cost-effective carbon sources
- 2.4. Identification of the selected bacterial strains
- 2.5. Qualitative and quantitative analytical methods for rhamnolipid production
- 2.6. Optimization of the process parameters for the biosurfactant production
- 2.7. Growth curve of the bacterial strains
- 2.8. Rhamnolipid recovery
- 2.9. Rhamnolipid purification
- 2.10. Characterization of rhamnolipid by fast-atom bombardment mass spectroscopy (fabms)
- 2.11. Application of the crude rhamnolipid in the deinking of old newspaper
- 3. Results
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Summary, Conclusion and Future prospects
- 6. Bibliography
- 7. Appendices