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    Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are bioplastics produced by bacteria as a way to store carbon and energy. PHAs were first produced in the 1980s from renewable biomass sources like vegetable oils and sugars. While initially more expensive than fossil fuel-based plastics, PHAs are now cheaper to produce. PHAs can be used for single-use plastic products, medical implants, and drug delivery due to their biodegradability and ability to be easily dyed. The production of PHAs through microbial fermentation depends on factors like bacterial growth rate, final cell density, percentage of PHA in cells, and substrate utilization efficiency. Certain bacteria like Ralstonia eutropha and E. coli

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    Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are bioplastics produced by bacteria as a way to store carbon and energy. PHAs were first produced in the 1980s from renewable biomass sources like vegetable oils and sugars. While initially more expensive than fossil fuel-based plastics, PHAs are now cheaper to produce. PHAs can be used for single-use plastic products, medical implants, and drug delivery due to their biodegradability and ability to be easily dyed. The production of PHAs through microbial fermentation depends on factors like bacterial growth rate, final cell density, percentage of PHA in cells, and substrate utilization efficiency. Certain bacteria like Ralstonia eutropha and E. coli

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    PHA: Polyhydroxyalkanoates: by Daniela Juarez Picon

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    Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are bioplastics produced by bacteria as a way to store carbon and energy. PHAs were first produced in the 1980s from renewable biomass sources like vegetable oils and sugars. While initially more expensive than fossil fuel-based plastics, PHAs are now cheaper to produce. PHAs can be used for single-use plastic products, medical implants, and drug delivery due to their biodegradability and ability to be easily dyed. The production of PHAs through microbial fermentation depends on factors like bacterial growth rate, final cell density, percentage of PHA in cells, and substrate utilization efficiency. Certain bacteria like Ralstonia eutropha and E. coli

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    PHA: Polyhydroxyalkanoates

    By Daniela Juarez Picon


    Biopolymers are plastics derived from renewable biomass sources
    suchas vegetable oil, starch, proteins etc,
    Why shall we use PHA?

     First produced around 80’s


     Price related to fossil fuels price

     Now cheaper

     One-use-only products

     Easy to dye
    Applications
     Plastics
     Medical implants
     Drug delivery carriers
     Printing and photographic materials
     Nutritional supplements.
    Effective microbial production of PHA
    depends on several factors:
     The final cell density.
     Bacterial growth rate.
     Percentage of PHA in cell dry weight.
     Time taken to reach high final cell density
     Substrate to product transformation efficiency
     Price of substrates
     Method to extract and purify the PHA
    Ralstonia eutropha + E. Coli
    Can grow to over 100 g/l containing over 75% PHA after 100 h of fermentation in a one
    cubic metre fermentor vessel
    Genetic manipulation, fast growth, high final cell density and
    ability to utilize inexpensive carbon sources.
    Sources:
    E. Bugnicourt, P. Cinelli, A. Lazzeri, V. Alvarez. Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA): Review of
    synthesis,characteristics, processing and potential applications inpackaging.(2014).
    Taken from http://www.iris-eng.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/EPL-0005219_article.pdf

    Guo-Qiang Chen. A microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) based bio- and materials industry
    (2009). Taken from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19623359

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