such as beef tallow, goat tallow,
sheep tallow and chicken tallow were assayed. The results in Fig. 10
indicate that the purified lipase from the P. gessardii had the highest
hydrolytic activity towards olive oil (100%), palm oil (96%), fried
cooking oil (96%) and animal tallow such as beef (146%), goat (112%)
and chicken tallow (97%) although it could hydrolyze all the oils
and fats tested in this study, suggesting that the purified lipase has
high potential application in digestion of lipids. A large amount
of lipid wastes are discharged from households, slaughterhouses
and different industries, each day and causes heavy pollution in
fresh water and seawater. Therefore, the lipase with high hydrolytic
activity towards animal fats and vegetable oil may have high potential
applications in degradation of these lipid wastes