and with an understanding that, in addition to the currently available SL-containing products(whose SL is generally produced on-site), innovative applications for SLs are continually being discovered but are being subdued to some degree because of a lack of an industrial source for SLs. Carbon source utilization and production yields used in the model were based on actual data derived from bench-top fermentations and the results from other research groups reporting greater than 100 g/L yields from glucose and different lipidic substrates including sunflower oil