Screening for Methane Utilizing Mixed Communities with High Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) Production Capacity Using Different Design Approaches.

ABSTRACT: With the adverse environmental ramifications of the use of petroleum-based plastic outweighing the challenges facing the industrialization of bioplastics, polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolymer has gained broad interest in recent years. Thus, an efficient approach for maximizing polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) polymer production in methanotrophic bacteria has been developed using the methane gas produced in the anaerobic digestion process in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPS) as a carbon substrate and an electron donor. A comparison study was conducted between two experimental setups using two different recycling strategies, namely new and conventional setups. The former setup aims to recycle PHB producers into the system after the PHB accumulation phase, while the latter recycles the biomass ba

SUBMITTER: Salem R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8157138 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature