METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES (PHA) FROM ORGANIC WASTE

According to one broad aspect of this disclosure, a method is provided for producing polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from organic waste. The method comprises homogenizing organic waste to obtain a feedstock that has about 0.01% to about 99.99% (w/w) dry mass solids. The feedstock is inoculated with an i...

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Hauptverfasser:	YU, Luna, SANJAY SOMAN, Sudhanshu, SANKAR, Vani, DE ALWIS WEERASEKERA, Hasitha, FORATTINI LEMOS IGREJA, Marcos, CHOW, Kaitlyn, WILLIAMSON, Michael James
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G BEER BIOCHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON ENZYMOLOGY FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONSONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS METALLURGY MICROBIOLOGY MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS SPIRITS THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP VINEGAR WINE WORKING-UP
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Zusammenfassung:	According to one broad aspect of this disclosure, a method is provided for producing polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from organic waste. The method comprises homogenizing organic waste to obtain a feedstock that has about 0.01% to about 99.99% (w/w) dry mass solids. The feedstock is inoculated with an inoculum of acidogenic fermentative bacteria in order to obtain an inoculated feedstock. The inoculated feedstock is incubated for at least 1 day to obtain a fermentation broth. The fermentation broth comprises volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and undigested organic waste. The fermentation broth is filtered with a filter with a pore size ranging from 0.2 µm to 500,000 NMWC to remove the acidogenic fermentative bacteria and undigested organic waste, to obtain a clarified broth comprising concentrated VFAs. The clarified broth and high-PHA producing bacteria are incubated to produce intracellular PHA granules in the high-PHA producing bacteria. PHA polymers are extracted from the intracellular PHA granules.