Low cost or waste raw material Biosurfactant type Producer microbial strain
Soybean oil refinery wastes Rhamnolipids Pseudomonas aeruginosa AT10
Curd whey and distillery wastes Rhamnolipid Pseudomonas aeruginosa BS2
Turkish corn oil Sophorolipids Candida bombicola ATCC 22214
Sunflower and soybean oil Rhamnolipid Pseudomonas aeruginosa DS10-129
Sunflower oil Lipopeptide Serratia marcescens
Soybean oil Mannosyl erythritol lipid Candida sp. SY16
Waste frying oils
(sunflower and olive oil)
Rhamnolipid Pseudomonas aeruginosa 47T2 NCIB 40044
Soybean soap stock waste Rhamnolipid Pseudomonas aeruginosa LBI
Sunflower oil soap stock waste Rhamnolipid Pseudomonas aeruginosa LBI
Oil refinery wastes Glycolipids Candida ntarctica and/or Candida apicola
Rapeseed oil Rhamnolipids Pseudomonas sp. DSM 2874
Babassu oil Sophorolipids Candida lipolytica IA 1055
Potato process effluents Lipopeptide Bacillus subtilis
Cassava flour wastewater Lipopeptide Bacillus subtilis ATCC 21332 and Bacillus subtilis LB5a
Olive oil Lipopeptide Bacillus subtilis SK320
Sludge Palm oil Phospholipid Klebsiella pneumoniae WMF02
Table 3: Use of low cost carbon sources for the production of biosurfactants by various microbial species.