Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:01:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MarcioSB.pdf: 589464 bytes, checksum: cac3e38c1369c38cc7a32c6797a2f465 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-08-24 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / Biosurfactants are amphiphilic molecules synthesized by microorganisms such as bacteria, yeast or filamented fungi cultivated in various carbon sources among sucrose and hydrocarbons. These molecules are composed by a hydrophilic and hydrophobic part. They operate mostly at interfaces of fluids of different polarities. Because of this characteristic, they are potentially employed in numerous industries, such as the textile, medical, cosmetics, food and mainly in the petrochemical ones. Therefore industry has interest in developing new biosurfactant production processes in high scale, in order to become them economically competitive when compared to synthetic biosurfactants. This work aims to evaluate the biosurfactant production applying a non-conventional substrate sugar cane molasses proceeding from the sugar industry thus reducing the production costs. The strain identified as AP029/GLIIA, isolated from oil wells in Rio Grande do Norte state and used in these experiments belongs to the culture collection of Antibiotics Department of UFPE. The fermentation were carried out using different conditions according to a factorial planning 24 with duplicate at center point, in which the studied factors were molasse concentration, nitrate concentration, agitation and aeration ratio. The experiments were performed in a shaker at 38?C of temperature. Samples were withdrawn in regular periods of time of up to 72 hours of fermentation in order to analyze substrate consumption, cellular concentration, superficial tension, critical micelle dilution (CMD-1 e CMD-2) as well as extracelullar protein production. The results showed a production of 3,480 g/L of biomass, a reduction of 41% on superficial tension, 67% of substrate consumption and 0,2805 g/L of extracellular protein / Biossurfactantes s?o mol?culas anfip?ticas sintetizadas por microrganismos como bact?rias, leveduras ou fungos filamentosos cultivados em v?rias fontes de carbono, entre as quais destacam-se a sacarose e os hidrocarbonetos. Estas mol?culas, compostas por uma parte hidrof?lica e outra hidrof?bica, agem preferencialmente na interface de fluidos de diferentes polaridades. Devido a esta caracter?stica, s?o potencialmente utilizados em in?meras ind?strias como a t?xtil, a farmac?utica, a de cosm?tico, a aliment?cia e especialmente nas ind?strias petroqu?micas. Por estas potenciais aplica??es ? de interesse industrial o desenvolvimento de processos de produ??o de biosurfactante em grande escala que os tornem economicamente competitivos com os surfactantes sint?ticos. Esta disserta??o tem como objetivo avaliar a produ??o de biossurfactante utilizando um substrato n?o convencional - mela?o de cana - proveniente da ind?stria a?ucareira, reduzindo os custos de produ??o. A cepa identificada como AP029/GLVIIA, isolada de po?os de petr?leo do Estado do RN e utilizada nestes ensaios, pertence ? cole??o de cultura do Departamento de Antibi?ticos da UFPE. Os cultivos foram submetidos a diferentes condi??es utilizando um planejamento fatorial 24 com duplicata no ponto central, no qual os fatores estudados foram concentra??o de mela?o, concentra??o de nitrato (fonte de nitrog?nio), agita??o e raz?o de aera??o. Os ensaios foram realizados em shaker a temperatura de 38?C. Amostras foram retiradas em tempos regulares de at? 60 ou 72 horas completadas de cultivo para a an?lise do consumo de substrato, da concentra??o celular, da tens?o superficial, da dilui??o micelar cr?tica (CMD-1 e CMD-2) e da produ??o de prote?na. Os resultados mostraram que nas melhores condi??es de cultivo foram obtidos 3,480 g/L de biomassa, uma redu??o da tens?o superficial de aproximadamente 41%, 67% de consumo de substrato e a s?ntese de 0,2805g/L de prote?na