Dear all,Can you please tell me whether i can use a surfactant to remove chlorophyll from microalgae along with ethanol and NaOH mixture ?

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Anoop Kumar Srivastava

I don't think , you need any surfactant to remove chlorophyll from microalgae , different saponification methods employed are quite effective.Here is an interesting PDF for referal..

Vipul Swarup Bhatnagar

try to use acid base lipid extraction protocol

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