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CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages 128-135Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2017.12.021
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [CTM2015-7042-R]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Red NOVEDAR)
- European Union through the FEDER Funding Program
- Regional Government of Castilla y Leon [UIC71]
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Methane, with a global warming potential twenty five times higher than that of CO2 is the second most important greenhouse gas emitted nowadays. Its bioconversion into microbial molecules with a high retail value in the industry offers a potential cost-efficient and environmentally friendly solution for mitigating anthropogenic diluted CH4-laden streams. Methane bio-refinery for the production of different compounds such as ectoine, feed proteins, biofuels, bioplastics and polysaccharides, apart from new bioproducts characteristic of methanotrophic bacteria, has been recently tested in discontinuous and continuous bioreactors with promising results. This review constitutes a critical discussion about the state-of-the-art of the potential and research niches of biotechnologies applied in a CH4 biorefinery approach.
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