Polyhydroxyalkanoate quantification in organic wastes and pure cultures using a single-step extraction and1H NMR analysis

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1000-1006

  Linton, Elisabeth ^a   Rahman, Asif ^a   Viamajala, Sridhar ^b   Sims, Ronald C ^a   Miller, Charles D ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b The University of Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography; Nile blue; NMR; P(HB co HV); Polyhydroxyalkanoate quantification

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTER; BACKGROUND IMPURITIES; BLUE FLUORESCENCE; HIGH CONCENTRATION; METHANOLYSIS; MIXED MICROBIAL CULTURE; NILE BLUE; NMR ANALYSIS; NON DESTRUCTIVE; ORGANIC WASTES; PHA COPOLYMERS; POLY-HYDROXYALKANOATE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PURE CULTURE; ROUTINE ANALYSIS; SINGLE-STEP; WASTE SAMPLES;

DEUTERIUM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EFFLUENTS;

CHLOROFORM; COPOLYMER; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; FLUORESCENCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

ACCURACY; AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; EFFLUENT; EXTRACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHANOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC WASTE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BIOREACTORS; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII AVOP; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR;

EID: 84864411235     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2012.273     Document Type: Article

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