Effect of organic acid profiles during anaerobic treatment of palm oil mill effluent on the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates by Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 151-156

  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

formic acid; palm oil mill effluent; PHA; photosynthetic bacteria; polyhydroxyalkanoates; Rhodobacter sphaeroides; wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ALKANOIC ACID; PALM OIL;

ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; NONHUMAN; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SLUDGE DIGESTION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 10144257229     PISSN: 0922338X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0922-338X(96)85038-0     Document Type: Article

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