Development of Bio-PORec® system for polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production and its storage in mixed cultures of palm oil mill effluent (POME)

Din, Mohd Fadhil Md; Ponraj, Mohanadoss; Ujang, Zaini; Loosdrecht, M.C.M. van; Yunus, Salmiati Muhd; Chelliapan, Shreeshivadasan; Zambare, Vasudeo; Olsson, Gustaf

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2012.08.036

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“…These results were similar to those obtained in previous work using other waste substrates (e.g. palm oil mill effluent, fermented olive oil mill pomace, crude glycerol) [ 31 – 33 ], indicating a reliable performance of the cultures in accumulation tests. In terms of PHA storage yields (expressed as COD) on COD consumed, PHA accumulation carried out by using the three supernatants gave substantially similar results when OFMSW-supernatants acc.…”

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Enhanced polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste by using mixed microbial culture

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BackgroundIn Europe, almost 87.6 million tonnes of food waste are produced. Despite the high biological value of food waste, traditional management solutions do not consider it as a precious resource. Many studies have reported the use of food waste for the production of high added value molecules. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) represent a class of interesting bio-polyesters accumulated by different bacterial cells, and has been proposed for production from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW). Nevertheless, until now, no attention has been paid to the entire biological process leading to the transformation of food waste to organic acids (OA) and then to PHA, getting high PHA yield per food waste unit. In particular, the acid-generating process needs to be optimized, maximizing OA production from OFMSW. To do so, a pilot-scale Anaerobic Percolation Biocell Reactor (100 L in volume) was used to produce an OA-rich percolate from OFMSW which was used subsequently to produce PHA.ResultsThe optimized acidogenic process resulted in an OA production of 151 g kg−1 from fresh OFMSW. The subsequent optimization of PHA production from OA gave a PHA production, on average, of 223 ± 28 g kg−1 total OA fed. Total mass balance indicated, for the best case studied, a PHA production per OFMSW weight unit of 33.22 ± 4.2 g kg−1 from fresh OFMSW, corresponding to 114.4 ± 14.5 g kg−1 of total solids from OFMSW. PHA composition revealed a hydroxybutyrate/hydroxyvalerate (%) ratio of 53/47 and Mw of 8∙105 kDa with a low polydispersity index, i.e. 1.4.ConclusionsThis work showed how by optimizing acidic fermentation it could be possible to get a large amount of OA from OFMSW to be then transformed into PHA. This step is important as it greatly affects the total final PHA yield. Data obtained in this work can be useful as the starting point for considering the economic feasibility of PHA production from OFMSW by using mixed culture.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13068-017-0888-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Enhanced polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste by using mixed microbial culture

Colombo

Favini

Scaglia

et al. 2017

Biotechnol Biofuels

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“…PHA production using palm oil mill effluent (POME) was investigated by Din and colleagues [ 128 ], using a laboratory SBR system under aerobic feeding conditions. The microorganisms were grown in serial configuration under non-limiting conditions for biomass growth, whereas in the parallel configuration the nutrient presence was controlled so as to minimize biomass growth in favor of intracellular PHA production.…”

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Recent Advances and Challenges towards Sustainable Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production

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Sustainable biofuels, biomaterials, and fine chemicals production is a critical matter that research teams around the globe are focusing on nowadays. Polyhydroxyalkanoates represent one of the biomaterials of the future due to their physicochemical properties, biodegradability, and biocompatibility. Designing efficient and economic bioprocesses, combined with the respective social and environmental benefits, has brought together scientists from different backgrounds highlighting the multidisciplinary character of such a venture. In the current review, challenges and opportunities regarding polyhydroxyalkanoate production are presented and discussed, covering key steps of their overall production process by applying pure and mixed culture biotechnology, from raw bioprocess development to downstream processing.

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“…Thus, the use of waste materials as carbon sources for microbial-derived PHA production has been proposed in order to simultaneously reduce both PHA production and waste disposable costs (Choi and Lee, 1999; Kim, 2000; Koller et al, 2017; Nielsen et al, 2017). Several waste sources have been used to produce PHAs with relative success (Marshall et al, 2013; Nikodinovic-Runic et al, 2013; Anjum et al, 2016; Koller et al, 2017), including domestic wastewater (Carucci et al, 2001); food waste (Rhu et al, 2003); molasses (Albuquerque et al, 2007; Carvalho et al, 2014); olive oil mill effluents (Dionisi et al, 2005); palm oil mill effluents (Din et al, 2012); tomato cannery water (Liu et al, 2008); lignocellulosic biomass (Bhatia et al, 2019); coffee waste (Bhatia et al, 2018); starch (Bhatia et al, 2015); biodiesel industry waste (Kumar et al, 2014a; Sathiyanarayanan et al, 2017); used cooking oil (Ciesielski et al, 2015; Kourmentza et al, 2017); pea-shells (Patel et al, 2012; Kumar et al, 2014b); paper mill wastewater (Jiang et al, 2012); bio-oil from the fast-pyrolysis of chicken beds (Moita and Lemos, 2012); and cheese whey (Table 1).…”

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Prospects for the Use of Whey for Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production

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Plastic production and accumulation have devastating environmental effects, and consequently, the world is in need of environmentally friendly plastic substitutes. In this context, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) appear to be true alternatives to common plastics because they are biodegradable and biocompatible and can be biologically produced. Despite having comparable characteristics to common plastics, extensive PHA use is still hampered by its high production cost. PHAs are bacterial produced, and one of the major costs associated with their production derives from the carbon source used for bacterial fermentation. Thus, several industrial waste streams have been studied as candidate carbon sources for bacterial PHA production, including whey, an environmental contaminant by-product from the dairy industry. The use of whey for PHA production could transform PHA production into a less costly and more environmentally friendly process. However, the efficient use of whey as a carbon source for PHA production is still hindered by numerous issues, including whey pre-treatments and PHA producing strain choice. In this review, current knowledge on using whey for PHA production were summarized and new ways to overcome the challenges associated with this production process were proposed.

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Development of Bio-PORec® system for polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production and its storage in mixed cultures of palm oil mill effluent (POME)

Cited by 47 publications

References 32 publications

Enhanced polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste by using mixed microbial culture

Enhanced polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste by using mixed microbial culture

Recent Advances and Challenges towards Sustainable Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production

Prospects for the Use of Whey for Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production

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