{"title":"Scalable recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) from a mixed microbial culture via a novel acidification-NaClO digestion process","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.biteb.2024.101925","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) is a kind of cellular biopolymers, and a renewable alternative to conventional plastics. To promote low-cost PHA production, this study developed a simple and scalable process to recover this polymer from a phenol-fed mixed culture. Cultures containing >50 % PHA were first acidified then treated with NaClO, leading to digestion of cellular materials by HClO. NaClO dosage, HCl/NaClO ratio, and treatment time were tested for their effects on product Purity and Recovery rate. Compared with NaClO alone which obtained 55–74 % Purity and 57–73 % Recovery, acidification improved the extraction efficiency to 62–83 % Purity and 75–97 % Recovery of cellular PHA. Statistical analysis was performed on dosage, ratio and treatment time. The chemical cost of obtaining 1 kg pure PHA ranged $7–10, but can be greatly reduced by applying a denser culture. However, HClO reduced the molecular weight of the PHA products, which needs to be addressed in future studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8947,"journal":{"name":"Bioresource Technology Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bioresource Technology Reports","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589014X2400166X","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Environmental Science","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) is a kind of cellular biopolymers, and a renewable alternative to conventional plastics. To promote low-cost PHA production, this study developed a simple and scalable process to recover this polymer from a phenol-fed mixed culture. Cultures containing >50 % PHA were first acidified then treated with NaClO, leading to digestion of cellular materials by HClO. NaClO dosage, HCl/NaClO ratio, and treatment time were tested for their effects on product Purity and Recovery rate. Compared with NaClO alone which obtained 55–74 % Purity and 57–73 % Recovery, acidification improved the extraction efficiency to 62–83 % Purity and 75–97 % Recovery of cellular PHA. Statistical analysis was performed on dosage, ratio and treatment time. The chemical cost of obtaining 1 kg pure PHA ranged $7–10, but can be greatly reduced by applying a denser culture. However, HClO reduced the molecular weight of the PHA products, which needs to be addressed in future studies.