By-products of the cider production: an alternative source of nutrients to produce bacterial cellulose

Production of bacterial cellulose by Komagataeibacter xylinus using mango waste as alternative culture medium

“…Thermal behavior can provide ideas about BC fibers interactions, especially in cases that study the use a complex carbon source in the culture medium, due to interactions between BC and other fibers (Stumpf et al, 2013). Thermal degradation of the samples can be affected by different structural parameters, such as the molecular weight, the orientation of the fibers and the crystallinity of the BC (Urbina et al, 2017). Fig.…”

“…In recent years, there is a great interest in the use of agro-industrial or agro-food wastes to obtain diverse high value-added products (Pérez-Cadena et al, 2018;Simas-Díaz et al, 2018;Espinel-Rios et al, 2019). New technologies have been developed that use agroalimentary and industrial waste in the formulation of alternative culture media for the production of BC (Kongruang, 2008), such as pineapple and sugarcane juice (Castro et al, 2011); grape bagasse residue from wine production (Vazquez et al, 2013); apple waste from cider production (Urbina et al, 2017); among others, which have potential to be used as carbon sources for the formulation of culture media for biotechnological processes.…”

Bacterial nanocellulose production from naphthalene

“…Attenuated total reflectance–Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR‐FTIR spectroscopy) showed that the material obtained from the cultures on both naphthalene and cellulose had the characteristic profile of bacterial cellulose (Fig. ) (Nelson and O'Connor, ; Yamamoto et al ., ; Kondo et al ., ; Urbina et al ., ). The typical bands of bacterial cellulose were observed: a broad band near 3200 cm −1 corresponding to OH stretching vibrations; bands at 2900 and 2880 cm −1 corresponding to CH stretching vibrations; the bands at 1460 and 1250 cm −1 corresponding to CH 2 bending vibrations; bands at 1170 and 1050 cm −1 , corresponding to the vibration of C‐O‐C bonds of glycosidic bridges; and a band at 897 cm −1 characteristic of β‐linked glucose‐based polymers was also observed.…”

Bacterial cellulose as a potential bioleather substitute for the footwear industry

“…The main factor contributing to its high production cost is the synthetic media required to culture the bacteria. However, strategies are being designed for the effective and economic production of BC using food and industrial wastes as sources of nutrients (Urbina et al, 2017). It is also critical that the reactor conditions of temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen content, medium composition and stirring speed, etc., be optimized if production costs are to fall.…”