Recent advances and challenges towards sustainable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production

C Kourmentza, J Plácido, N Venetsaneas… - Bioengineering, 2017 - mdpi.com
Sustainable biofuels, biomaterials, and fine chemicals production is a critical matter that
research teams around the globe are focusing on nowadays. Polyhydroxyalkanoates …

Recent developments in Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) production–A review

PC Sabapathy, S Devaraj, K Meixner, P Anburajan… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are inevitably a key biopolymer that has the potential to
replace the conventional petrochemical based plastics that pose jeopardy to the …

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production via resource recovery from industrial waste streams: A review of techniques and perspectives

LDD Novelli, SM Sayavedra, ER Rene - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The problem of waste generation in the form of wastewater and solid wastes has caused an
urgent, yet persisting, global issue that calls for the development of sustainable treatment …

Carbon recovery from wastewater through bioconversion into biodegradable polymers

F Valentino, F Morgan-Sagastume, S Campanari… - New biotechnology, 2017 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are biodegradable polyesters that can be produced in
bioprocesses from renewable resources in contrast to fossil-based bio-recalcitrant polymers …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling-up microbial community-based polyhydroxyalkanoate production: status and challenges

Á Estévez-Alonso, R Pei, MCM van Loosdrecht… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conversion of organic waste and wastewater to polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) offers a
potential to recover valuable resources from organic waste. Microbial community-based …

Integrated production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) with municipal wastewater and sludge treatment at pilot scale

F Morgan-Sagastume, M Hjort, D Cirne, F Gérardin… - Bioresource …, 2015 - Elsevier
A pilot-scale process was operated over 22 months at the Brussels North Wastewater
Treatment Plant (WWTP) in order to evaluate polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production …

Visualization of polyhydroxyalkanoate accumulated in waste activated sludge

R Pei, G Vicente-Venegas… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) can be produced with municipal waste activated sludge from
biological wastewater treatment processes. Methods of selective fluorescent staining with …

Long-term validation of polyhydroxyalkanoates production potential from the sidestream of municipal wastewater treatment plant at pilot scale

V Conca, C da Ros, F Valentino, AL Eusebi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) production integrated with the via-nitrite
nitrogen removal from anaerobic reject water was investigated at pilot scale under long-term …

A process for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production from municipal wastewater treatment with biological carbon and nitrogen removal demonstrated at pilot-scale

S Bengtsson, A Karlsson, T Alexandersson, L Quadri… - New biotechnology, 2017 - Elsevier
A process was developed for biological treatment of municipal wastewater for carbon and
nitrogen removal while producing added-value polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs). The process …

A review of biopolymer (Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate) synthesis in microbes cultivated on wastewater

AA Amadu, S Qiu, S Ge, GND Addico… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The large quantities of non-degradable single use plastics, production and disposal, in
addition to increasing amounts of municipal and industrial wastewaters are among the major …