Recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from wastewater: A review.

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Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biopolyesters accumulated as carbon and energy storage materials under unbalanced growth conditions by various microorganisms. They are one of the most promising potential substitutes for conventional non-biodegradable plastics due to their similar physicochemical properties, but most important, its biodegradability. Production cost of PHAs is still a great barrier to extend its application at industrial scale. In order to reduce that cost, research is focusing on the use of several wastes as feedstock (such as agro-industrial and municipal organic waste and wastewater) in a platform based on mixed microbial cultures. This review provides a critical illustration of the state of the art of the most likely-to-be-scale-up PHA production processes using mixed microbial cultures platform and waste streams as feedstock, with a particular focus on both, upstream and downstream processes. Current pilot scale studies, future prospects, challenges and developments in the field are also highlighted.
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Authors Mannina, Giorgio;Presti, Dario;Montiel-Jarillo, Gabriela;Carrera, Julián;Suárez-Ojeda, María Eugenia;
Journal Bioresource technology
Year 2019
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S0960-8524(19)31708-0
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Keywords
biopolymers polyhydroxyalkanoates wastewater treatment circular economy resource recovery scale-up mixed microbial cultures

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