Production of Lipases from Dairy Industry Wastes and its Applications
In the present era, the main pollutant derived from the industrial waste waters are organic and inorganic substances, present either in solved or in suspension, with different degree of harmfulness. The dairy waste is basically organic and slightly alkaline in nature, when discharged in to streams without treatment, result in rapid depletion of dissolved oxygen(DO) and encourage the growth of algae i.e. eutrophication (Forsberg, 1998).Due to the overuse of surfactants in dairy, the waste can become unnameable to the biological treatment. The treatment of dairy wastewater, so that it is microbiologically and chemically acceptable for use in flush and irrigation applications, is of great importance (Ibekwe et al. 2003) Every Dairy industry is having particular characteristics of effluents. By the effective treatment of effluent several microbiota were identified and adapted to the wastewater physical chemical conditions to metabolize different organic compounds in to simplest form (Mihaela Palela et al. 2007) The current review focuses on utilization of some of the microorganisms involved in fast biodegradation of the organic compounds majorly lipids which have wide range of industrial applications. K e y w o r d s