eprintid: 15217 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/01/52/17 datestamp: 2023-11-10 03:29:50 lastmod: 2023-11-10 03:29:50 status_changed: 2023-11-10 01:58:56 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Wong, C.Y. creators_name: Kiatkittipong, K. creators_name: Kiatkittipong, W. creators_name: Ntwampe, S.K.O. creators_name: Lam, M.K. creators_name: Goh, P.S. creators_name: Cheng, C.K. creators_name: Bashir, M.J.K. creators_name: Lim, J.W. title: Black soldier fly larval valorization benefitting from ex-situ fungal fermentation in reducing coconut endosperm waste ispublished: pub note: cited By 8 abstract: Oftentimes, the employment of entomoremediation to reduce organic wastes encounters ubiquitous shortcomings, i.e., ineffectiveness to valorize recalcitrant organics in wastes. Considering the cost-favorability, a fermentation process can be employed to facilitate the degradation of biopoly-mers into smaller organics, easing the subsequent entomoremediation process. However, the efficacy of in situ fermentation was found impeded by the black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) in the current study to reduce coconut endosperm waste (CEW). Indeed, by changing into ex situ fermentation, in which the fungal Rhizopus oligosporus was permitted to execute fermentation on CEW prior to the larval feeding, the reduction of CEW was significantly enhanced. In this regard, the waste reduction index of CEW by BSFL was almost doubled as opposed to in situ fermentation, even with the inoculation of merely 0.5 wt of Rhizopus oligosporus. Moreover, with only 0.02 wt of fungal inoculation size to execute the ex situ fermentation on CEW, it could spur BSFL growth by about 50. Finally, from the statistical correlation study using principal component analysis, the presence of Rhizopus oligosporus in a range of 0.5�1.0 wt was regarded as optimum to ferment CEW via ex situ mode, prior to the valorization by BSFL in reducing the CEW. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. date: 2021 publisher: MDPI AG official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85100517694&doi=10.3390%2fpr9020275&partnerID=40&md5=e4af6dbafeea0d5be891293edf441173 id_number: 10.3390/pr9020275 full_text_status: none publication: Processes volume: 9 number: 2 pagerange: 1-9 refereed: TRUE issn: 22279717 citation: Wong, C.Y. and Kiatkittipong, K. and Kiatkittipong, W. and Ntwampe, S.K.O. and Lam, M.K. and Goh, P.S. and Cheng, C.K. and Bashir, M.J.K. and Lim, J.W. (2021) Black soldier fly larval valorization benefitting from ex-situ fungal fermentation in reducing coconut endosperm waste. Processes, 9 (2). pp. 1-9. ISSN 22279717