Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 91, Issue 1, Pages 1-29Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8524(03)00154-8
Keywords
bioremediation; anaerobic fermentations; methanogenesis in situ remediation; land and animal feeds; biocatalysis; de-icers; biodiesels; biodegradable plastics; bacterial polysaccharides; separations
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Research conducted over the past seven years by the biotechnology byproducts consortium (BBC) addresses its mission to investigate the opportunities to add value to agricultural products, byproducts and coproducts and to manage the wastewater arising from agribusinesses in an environmentally favorable way. Since a wide variety of research approaches have been taken, the results are collected in five topic groups: (1) bioremediation that includes anaerobic fermentations of wastes to produce methane and hydrogen, the genetics of methanogenesis and in situ remediation of contaminated aquifer systems, landfill leachates and industrial effluents; (2) land application of fermentation byproducts and their use in animal feeds; (3) biocatalytic studies of transformations of components of corn and soybean oils, peroxidases present in plant products, such as soybean hulls; (4) biochemical reactions for the production of de-icers from industrial water streams, biodiesel production from fats and greases, biodegradable plastics from polymerizable sugar derivatives, single cell foods derived from fungal growth on waste streams, and bacterial polysaccharides from Erwinia species, (5) separation and recovery of components by membrane technologies. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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