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Production of biodegradable plastics from activated sludge generated from a food processing industrial wastewater treatment plant

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Title Production of biodegradable plastics from activated sludge
generated from a food processing industrial wastewater
treatment plant
 
Creator Manukonda, Suresh Kumar
Mudliar, S N
Reddy, K M K
Chakrabarti, T
 
Subject Environmental Biotechnology
 
Description Most of the excess sludge from a wastewater treatment plant (60%) is disposed by landfill. As a resource utilization of excess sludge, the production of biodegradable plastics using the sludge has been proposed. Storage polymers in bacterial cells can be extracted and used as biodegradable plastics. However, widespread applications have been limited by high production cost. In the present study, activated sludge bacteria in a conventional wastewater treatment system were induced, by controlling the carbon:
nitrogen ratio to accumulate storage polymers. Polymer yield increased to a maximum 33% of biomass (w/w) when the C/N ratio was increased from 24 to 144, where as specific growth yield decreased with increasing C/N ratio. The conditions which are required for the maximum polymer accumulation were optimized and are discussed.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2004-12
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://neeri.csircentral.net/466/1/BioRes_PHB1.pdf
Manukonda, Suresh Kumar and Mudliar, S N and Reddy, K M K and Chakrabarti, T (2004) Production of biodegradable plastics from activated sludge generated from a food processing industrial wastewater treatment plant. Bioresource Technology, 95 (3). pp. 327-330. ISSN 0960-8524
 
Relation http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096085240400080X
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