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APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 106, Issue 4, Pages 1419-1434Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-022-11804-6
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Anaerobic digestate; Anaerobic digestion; Water recovery; Biomanufacturing; Phosphorus; Fermentation
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Due to climate change and drought, it is crucial to develop new technologies for water recovery from nutrient-rich effluents. Anaerobic digestate contains valuable minerals that can be used as nutrients for fermentation, enabling water recovery and bio-production of chemicals.
Due to mounting impacts of climate change, particularly increased incidence of drought, hence water scarcity, it has become imperative to develop new technologies for recovering water from nutrient-rich, water-replete effluents other than sewage. Notably, anaerobic digestate could be harnessed for the purpose of water recovery by repurposing digestate-borne minerals as nutrients in fermentative processes. The high concentrations of ammonium, phosphate, sulfate, and metals in anaerobic digestate are veritable microbial nutrients that could be harnessed for bio-production of bulk and specialty chemicals. Tethering nutrient sequestration from anaerobic digestate to bio-product accumulation offers promise for concomitant water recovery, bio-chemical production, and possible phosphate recovery. In this review, we explore the potential of anaerobic digestate as a nutrient source and as a buffering agent in fermentative production of glutamine, glutamate, fumarate, lactate, and succinate. Additionally, we discuss the potential of synthetic biology as a tool for enhancing nutrient removal from anaerobic digestate and for expanding the range of products derivable from digestate-based fermentations. Strategies that harness the nutrients in anaerobic digestate with bio-product accumulation and water recovery could have far-reaching implications on sustainable management of nutrient-rich manure, tannery, and fish processing effluents that also contain high amounts of water.
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