期刊
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
卷 10, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2022.108683
关键词
Plastic; Yarrowia lipolytica; Fermentation; Supercritical water
资金
- Institute for Business Competitive-ness of the Regional Government of Castilla y Le?on, Spain
- [CCTT2/18/VA/0001]
The accumulation of plastic waste is a pressing issue that needs to be addressed urgently. This study proposes a method to convert the carbon content of plastic waste into triglycerides, with a focus on polyethylene. The research demonstrates the feasibility of using polyethylene as a carbon source for fermentation, resulting in the production of triglycerides.
Plastic waste accumulation in the environment is an exponentially growing problem that needs to be urgently addressed to avoid the catastrophic damage of terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems. In this work, currently undervalued plastic carbon content was aimed to be exploited by converting it into triglycerides (TGs), following a two-stage approach. Polyethylene (PE) was first treated by hydrothermal processing (HTP) to obtain PE oils that were later used as carbon source for fermentation with Yarrowia lipolytica and transformed into TGs. HTP PE oil obtained at 425oC for 120 min was found as an optimal carbon source for the biotechnological stage. Under these optimized conditions, 75% of PE mass was transformed into a PE oil that could be used by Yarrowia as carbon source to grow and produce TGs. An oil concentration of 15 g/l in fermentation media in the biotech-nological stage improved fermentation performance as well in comparison to 10 g/l concentration: biomass growth and TGs production yield were increased by 130% regarding the control. Thereby, an alternative approach towards turning one of the most widespread plastics as PE into TGs is proposed in this work.
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