Advances in Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production, Volume 2

Bioengineering

Martin Koller¹ 

[1] Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Heinrichstrasse 28/VI, 8010 Graz, Austria;

关键词: biomedical application;    cyanobacteria;    feedstocks;    gaseous substrates;    haloarchaea;    high cell density cultivation;    in-line monitoring;    pha composition;    pha processing;    polyhydroxyalkanoate;    process engineering;    process simulation;    pseudomonas sp.;    rheology;    terpolyester;    waste streams;   

DOI  :  10.3390/bioengineering7010024

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

During the two years that have passed since the first volume of “Advances in Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production” was published, the progress in PHA-related research was indeed tremendous, calling for the next, highly bioprocess- and bioengineering-oriented volume. This editorial paper summarizes and puts into context the contributions to this second volume of the Bioengineering Special Issue; it covers highly topical fields of PHA-related R&D activities, covering, beside the pronounced bioengineering-related articles, the fields of the microbiology of underexplored, but probably emerging, PHA production strains from the groups of Pseudomonas, cyanobacteria, methanotrophs, and from the extremophilic domain of haloarchaea. Moreover, novel second-generation lignocellulose feedstocks for PHA production from agriculture to be used in biorefinery concepts, new approaches for fine-tuning the composition of PHA co- and terpolyesters, process simulation for PHA production from methane-rich natural gas, the challenges associated with rheology-governed oxygen transfer in high cell density cultivations, rapid spectroscopic in-line analytics for process monitoring, and the biomedical application of PHA biopolyesters after appropriate advanced processing are the subjects of the presented studies.

【 授权许可】

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