The production of polyhydroxyalkanoate from anaerobically treated palm oil mill effluent by Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 485-488

  Hassan, Mohd Ali ^a   Shirai, Yoshihito ^b   Kusubayashi, Noriko ^b   Karim, Mohd Ismail Abdul ^a   Nakanishi, Kazuhiro ^c   Hashimoto, Kenji ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Palm oil; Palm oil mill effluent; PHA; Photosynthetic bacteria; Polyhydroxyalkanoate; Rhodobacter sphaeroides; Sludge; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BACTERIA; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

OIL MILL EFFLUENTS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIA;

BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT;

ACETIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; EFFLUENT; FERMENTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SLUDGE DRYING; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0030983581     PISSN: 0922338X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0922-338X(97)83007-3     Document Type: Article

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