Advanced approaches to produce polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolyesters in a sustainable and economic fashion

Abstract

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), the only group of “bioplastics” sensu stricto, are accumulated by various prokaryotes as intracellular “carbonosomes”. When exposed to exogenous stress or starvation, presence of these microbial polyoxoesters of hydroxyalkanoates assists microbes to survive.

Keywords

• animal-processing industry
• biodiesel
• biopolyesters
• biopolymers
• polyhydroxyalkanoates (pha)
• raw materials
• sustainability
• waste streams
• whey