Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 331, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125031
Keywords
Wood waste; Mixed microbial consortia; Polyhydroxyalkanoate; Co-substrate; Microbial Community
Funding
- Tianjin Natural Science Foundation [18JCYBJC90100]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31870564, 31270607, 30901133]
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Using mixed microbial consortium to accumulate PHA, combined with VFAs and octanoate as co-substrates, effectively reduces production costs and improves PHA yield and quality. The strategy shows potential for producing high-strength and vapor barrier biopolymer materials at low cost.
Using mixed microbial consortium (MMC) to accumulate polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) is an effective strategy to solve high production cost and reduce the amount of excess sludge. In this study, a process for the production of short-chain-length and medium-chain-length PHA using volatile fatty acids (VFAs) from pretreated wood hydrolysate synergistic with octanoate as co-substrate was proposed. The effects of co-substrate ratios on PHA accumulation ability and physical properties were investigated. The incorporation of co-substrate accelerated the time of PHA and 3-hydroxyoctanoate reaching the maximum production (1834 and 280 mg COD/L). The highest PHA content was 53.0% (w/w), which was equivalent to that reported previously. The biopolymer films possessed high tensile strength, Young?s modulus, and could be used in the field of water vapor barrier requirements. The accumulation strategy applied for converting fermentation products VFAs and octanoate cosubstrate into high value and yield PHA could potentially demonstrate the valuable for low-cost large-scale production.
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