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How is our January Enzyme of the Month CALB changing the world? Today, let’s explore three of the versatile applications of CALB enzymes 🍔🚗💄 🌱 Food Processing: CALB plays a crucial role in processing fats such as transforming vegetable oils into margarine and cocoa-butter equivalents through interesterification. Traditionally, the food and brewing industries have relied on chemical processes or hydrogenation for similar properties, but a shift towards using enzymes has enabled healthier food products with similar properties and less trans fats. 🔋 Biofuel Production: In the renewable energy sector, CALB, shines as a catalyst for the production of biodiesel. This process, called transesterification, breaks down triglycerides, the main constituents of natural fats and oils, into biodiesel (fatty acid methyl esters) and glycerol in the presence of methanol. Transesterification facilitates the creation of a more sustainable and environmentally friendly fuel source. Its robustness and reusability under various conditions further enhance the efficiency and economic viability of biodiesel production processes. 💄 Beauty Products: CALB enzymes’ ability to emulsify, modify lipids, and stabilize ingredients improves the safety, texture, effectiveness, and shelf life of cosmetics and skincare products, including isopropyl myristate. Specifically, CALB enzymes significantly reduce bacterial contamination and unwanted chemical reactions, allowing higher-quality beauty products to be produced. 🧲Importantly, many of these applications rely on the immobilization of CALB, enhancing its stability, longevity, and ease of recovery attaching the enzyme on to a solid support to improve processing. CALB enzymes have incredibly diverse applications. Tune in next time to find out more about how biochemically it works.  #EnzymaticFuture #Enzyme #CALB #Innovation #Sustainability #Biochemistry #Science #FoodProcessing #Biodiesel #RenewableEnergy #Biocatalysis

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Rodolpho Monteiro

PhD in Chemical Engineering

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Another interesting application of CALB in the modification of oils/fats is the production of biolubricants.

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