Development and Optimization of Downstream Purification Process of LCY's Carotenoids Products

类胡萝卜素、维生素A、β-胡萝卜素、番茄红素、叶黄素和虾青素具有许多已知的健康益处，并且可以以补充剂和食品添加剂的形式转化为营养品。它们也可用作食品工业、化妆品工业和制药工业的天然着色剂。这些类胡萝卜素也可用作动物饲料配方中的添加剂。LCY化学公司的子公司，专注于通过生物基原材料和可持续工艺进行化学生产。2018年，LCY收购了位于安大略萨尼亚的前BioAmber工厂，旨在重新开始生产生物基琥珀酸，并使用LCY Biosciences专有的生物技术平台开始生产生物基类胡萝卜素。LCY Biosciences的生物基琥珀酸生产是一个既定的过程，但生产生物基类胡萝卜素的过程正在开发中。LCY和兰顿学院通过以前的一个项目建立了积极的合作伙伴关系，该项目致力于优化LCY的发酵过程。在此基础上，LCY公司的主要目标是开发和优化指定类胡萝卜素产品的下游纯化工艺，并建立QA/QC程序。该项目的成功将有助于LCY公司推进其类胡萝卜素生产线和商业化。这种类胡萝卜素产品的商业化不仅将通过经济增长和创造就业机会在经济上使加拿大受益，而且还将通过使用农业生物质作为原料而不是石化来源，并通过发酵过程而不是化学合成方法来最大限度地减少化学废物的产生，从而使加拿大在环境上受益。

Carotenoids, vitamin A, beta carotene, lycopene, canthaxanthin, and astaxanthin, have many known health benefits and can be converted into nutraceuticals in the form of supplements and food additives. They can also be used as a natural colourant for the food industry, cosmetic industry, and pharmaceutical industry. These carotenoids can also be used as an additive in animal feed formulations.LCY Biosciences Inc. an LCY Chemical Corp. subsidiary, focuses on chemical production through bio-based raw materials and sustainable processes. In 2018, LCY acquired the former BioAmber plant in Sarnia, Ontario with intentions of restarting the production of bio-based succinic acid and also to begin the production of bio-based carotenoids using the LCY Biosciences proprietary biotechnology platform. LCY Biosciences' production of bio-based succinic acid is an established process, but the process of producing bio-based carotenoids is under development. LCY & Lambton College have built a positive partnership through a previous project that worked to optimize LCY's fermentation process. Building on this success, LCY's main objective of this project is to develop and optimize the downstream purification process for the named carotenoids products and establish the QA/QC procedures.The success of this project will be instrumental for LCY to move forward on their carotenoids production line and commercialization. The commercialization of this carotenoid product will not only economically benefit Canada through economic growth and job creation, but it will also environmentally benefit Canada by using agriculture biomass as feedstock instead of petrochemical sources and minimizing the chemical waste production through the fermentation process instead of chemical synthetic method to produce carotenoids.