Production and recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from waste streams–A review

RY Kannah, MD Kumar, S Kavitha, JR Banu… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are the more attractive sustainable green plastic, and it has
the potential to replace petroleum-based plastics (PBP) in the global market. Recently, most …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiesel biorefinery: opportunities and challenges for microbial production of fuels and chemicals from glycerol waste

JRM Almeida, LCL Fávaro, BF Quirino - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2012 - Springer
The considerable increase in biodiesel production worldwide in the last 5 years resulted in a
stoichiometric increased coproduction of crude glycerol. As an excess of crude glycerol has …

Microbial community-based polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) production from wastewater: Techno-economic analysis and ex-ante environmental assessment

C Fernández-Dacosta, JA Posada, R Kleerebezem… - Bioresource …, 2015 - Elsevier
This work investigates the potential for polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) production from
wastewater, from a techno-economic and an environmental perspective, examining scale-up …

Trends in the biomanufacture of polyhydroxyalkanoates with focus on downstream processing

MR Kosseva, E Rusbandi - International journal of biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of the current review is to analyze trends in development of an efficient technology
for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biomanufacture highlighting the up-to-date progress on …

Techno-economic assessment of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) production from methane—The case for thermophilic bioprocessing

I Levett, G Birkett, N Davies, A Bell, A Langford… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
A major obstacle preventing the large scale production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs)
has been the lack of a reliable, low cost, large volume feedstock. The abundance and …

Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) biosynthesis by Cupriavidus necator: a review on waste substrates utilization for a circular economy approach

S Bellini, T Tommasi, D Fino - Bioresource Technology Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Cupriavidus necator owes its popularity to the ability to produce large amounts of the
polyester poly (3-hydroxybutyric acid), or PHB. During the last decades, C. necator has earnt …

Sustainable design and synthesis of energy systems

J Gong, F You - Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•State-of-the-art review of sustainable design and synthesis of energy
systems.•Research challenges of the superstructure optimization approach.•Incorporating …

Recent advances in the production, recovery and applications of polyhydroxyalkanoates

AM Gumel, MSM Annuar, Y Chisti - Journal of Polymers and the …, 2013 - Springer
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biodegradable and biocompatible polyesters that can
potentially replace certain plastics derived from petroleum. PHAs can be produced using a …

Design and analysis of biorefineries based on raw glycerol: addressing the glycerol problem

JA Posada, LE Rincón, CA Cardona - Bioresource Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
Glycerol as a low-cost by-product of the biodiesel industry can be considered a renewable
building block for biorefineries. In this work, the conversion of raw glycerol to nine added …

Biodegradable plastic mulch films for sustainable specialty crop production

DG Hayes, MB Anunciado, JM DeBruyn… - Polymers for agri-food …, 2019 - Springer
Plastic mulch films are employed in the production of vegetables and other specialty crops
worldwide due to the benefits they provide, such as reduction of weeds and water loss by …